The nickel business is a significant component of our overall portfolio, setting standards of excellence in mining, processing and marketing products that meet society’s needs and contribute to improved quality of life.Nickel is widely used to produce stainless steel and special alloys. It is an essential ingredient in the products we use every day, including electronics, construction materials and medical equipment.We have more than 12,000 employees working with nickel in Canada, the United States, Indonesia, Asia, New Caledonia, the United Kingdom and Brazil.Our goal is to grow nickel production for the world, responsibly.Please explore our website to learn more about Vale’s nickel business.

ArcelorMittal is the world's No. 1 steel company with 320,000 employees in 60 countries. ArcelorMittal is one of Canada's leading suppliers of steel products and iron ore to markets in North America and around the world, with extensive mining, steelmaking and tube manufacturing facilities in the provinces of New Brunswick, Quebec and Ontario.Recognized for the excellence of its products, the skills of its 12,000 talented employees and its leadership in the industry, ArcelorMittal produces in Canada iron ore concentrate and pellets, and a wide range of steel products, including hot rolled, cold rolled, galvanized, Extragal, Galvalume, tinplate, chromium-coated and pre-painted falt rolled steels as well as tubular products.

Heraeus is a globally active precious metals and technology Group with firm roots in Germany, headquartered in Hanau near Frankfurt. The company has been family-owned for more than 155 years. Precious metals, materials and technologies, sensors, biomaterials and medical products as well as dental and pharma, quartz glass, and specialty light sources are the focus of our activities.Heraeus currently holds more than 5,500 patents. Over 350 R&D employees in 25 development centers around the world fuel our innovative engines. In 2009, Heraeus generated more than € 2.6 billion in product revenue and €13.6 billion in precious metals trading revenue with more than 12,300 employees in over 110 subsidiaries.

Nippon Light Metal Company (NLM) is heavily into aluminum. The company's operations span the process from turning bauxite ore into alumina to smelting aluminum to fabricating finished aluminum products. It makes ingot, sheets, and extrusions; chemicals (aluminum hydroxide, caustic soda, fluorine); fabricated products; and building materials. Those last two units -- fabricated products (food containers, fuel tanks, ladders) and building materials (scaffolds, fences and railings, soundproof walls) -- contribute about two-thirds of sales. NLM has a joint venture with Mitsubishi to produce aluminum sheet for automotive applications.

Canadian-based mineral exploration company, Guyana Goldfields Inc., is focused primarily on the exploration and development of gold deposits in the Guiana Shield of South America. The Guiana Shield is in the northern part of the Amazon Craton and covers parts of Guyana, Venezuela, Suriname, French Guyana and northern Brazil. The Company holds advanced exploration projects in various stages of development and has been operating in Guyana continuously since 1996. The Company’s focus is on maintaining its interest in the Aurora Property there by continually conducting exploration and development work. Effective January 28, 2009, Guyana Goldfields acquired Aranka (formerly TSX.V: ARK). This arrangement consolidates the property interests of both companies in Guyana. The Aranka property consists 19 contiguous prospecting licenses covering over 307,589 acres, located 19 miles north east of the Aurora Base Camp. The company has designated several new zones of interest in this area for further exploration.

Delta Steel processes and distributes carbon and alloy plates, structural products such as bars, pipe and tubing. The company's annual production is in the range of 1.3 million tons of steel. Though it concentrates its operations on the southwestern US, Delta does export its steel products to Mexico, Puerto Rico, and parts of South America. It also has agreements with trading companies that give it access to Asian markets. Subsidiary Smith Pipe & Steel has locations in Arizona. Delta Steel is a PNA Group company and, so, owned by Reliance Steel & Aluminum.

U. S. Steel Kosice, a profitable integrated steel company located in Eastern Slovakia, represents a successful partnership of Slovak technical skills and knowledge with strong American plant management and market-oriented business experience. In November 2000 the ownership of the complete metallurgical operation of the East Slovakian Steelworks was successfully transferred to the U. S. Steel Group, then a unit of the USX Corporation (now the United States Steel Corporation).U. S. Steel Kosice embarked directly on an ambitious program of capital investment and improvement of customer service, product quality and environmental performance.A responsible approach to business is fundamental and permanent principle of U. S. Steel Kosice which is a leading contributor to the economic, environmental, and social development of Kosice and Eastern Slovakia. Steel Company supports community projects in healthcare, education, charity, sport and culture.

SiPi Metals Corp. was founded in 1905 and has been in business continuously for over a century. We are a refiner of precious metals and manufacturer of copper alloys.Our interest is in the refining of precious metal scrap generated in the electronics, chemical, photographic, and aerospace industries. We also refine a great deal of scrap for the defense industry and military. The use of gold, silver and the platinum group metals is quite extensive in military applications. SiPi specializes in the treatment of large quantities of precious metal content scrap which are heavily contaminated with fiberglass, plastic, etc. We employ 150 people and generate annual sales of approximately $200,000,000. SiPi Metals Corp. is largely owned by its employees through an Employee Stock Ownership Plan. We have extensive lines of credit at JP Morgan Chase Bank and other international banking institutions. We achieved ISO 9000 certification in 1999 and have been recertified to the current ISO 9001:2000.SiPi has the capacity to treat 3,000 tons of scrap material per month and can return the gold, silver, etc. in your scrap to the location of your choice or we can pay for the metals at world market prices. We offer global service to our customers with processing locations in Scotland, Brazil, Columbia, Mexico and the Far East. We also provide logistics services virtually anywhere in the world.

Amalgamated Metal Corporation (AMC) stays in the mix by trading, distributing, and manufacturing metals, building products, and chemicals for a wide range of industrial applications. Its metals include steel and non-ferrous metals (aluminum and tin), and its chemicals operation distributes paints and coatings, specialty, and food chemicals. AMC operates through about 25 subsidiary companies in 12 countries. In North America, it operates subsidiary Amalgamet, which trades non-ferrous metals, chemicals, and essential oils. Amalgamated Metal Corporation Industrial segment is its largest, accounting for not quite two-thirds of its business. Almost half of AMC's sales are in the UK and continental Europe.

Cloud Peak Energy Inc., through its subsidiaries, engages in coal mining operations in the Powder River Basin of the United States. It produces sub-bituminous steam coal with low sulfur content for electric utilities and industrial customers. Cloud Peak operates two surface coal mines in Wyoming and one surface coal mine in Montana. It also owns a 50% interest in a surface coal mine in Montana. As of December 31, 2009, it had approximately 1.0 billion tons of proven and probable coal reserves. In addition, Cloud Peak holds a 50% joint venture interest in the Decker Coal Company. Cloud Peak Energy, Inc. was founded in 1993 and is based in Gillette, Wyoming.

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