National Aluminium is among India's largest producers of aluminum and related products. Founded in 1981, the company's operations encompass the entire aluminum production process, from bauxite mining to alumina refining to aluminum smelting and casting. Its business also includes power generation and port activities. National Aluminium manufactures a line of aluminum products that includes rolled aluminum, wire rods, cast strips, billets, and alumina hydrate. In addition to engaging in a healthy domestic trade, National Aluminium exports its products elsewhere in Asia, the Persian Gulf, and the US; exports account for more than a third of business.

BHP Billiton Plc, together with its subsidiaries, operates as a diversified natural resources company. Billiton engages in exploration, production, development, and marketing of oil and gas properties. It also engages in mining of bauxite, refining of bauxite into alumina, and smelting of alumina into aluminum metal; and mining of copper, silver, lead, zinc, uranium, nickel, molybdenum, gold, diamonds, titanium, manganese, iron ores, metallurgical coal, and thermal or steaming coal. In addition, Billiton produces manganese metal and alloys. It operates in Australia, China, Europe, Japan, North America, South Korea, South America, Africa, other Asian countries, and rest of the world. The company, formerly known as Billiton Plc, was incorporated in 1996 and is based in London, the United Kingdom. BHP Billiton Plc operates as a subsidiary of BHP Billiton Group.

Bear Lake Gold Ltd. is a Canadian gold exploration company listed on the TSX Venture Exchange under the symbol "BLG". Bear Lake Gold's primary project is the Larder Lake gold property, located on the prolific Cadillac-Larder Lake Break in the mining district of north-eastern Ontario. The Larder Lake property consists of a 100% interest in the Bear Lake, Cheminis, Fernland and Barber Larder properties. The Company also has a 75% interest in the Swansea property and holds additional mining claims in the area. This portfolio of gold exploration projects spread out over a distance of approximately 13km gives the Company a large area of interesting targets to explore in one of the world's best mining jurisdictions with excellent infrastructures available at close proximity. Bear Lake Gold has recently completed a $3.7 million financing and exploration at Larder Lake resumed in July 2010. Bear Lake Gold Ltd. also has an interest in two other gold exploration projects: (1) an option with Newmont Mining Company to earn a 75% interest in certain claims at Hope Bay in Nunavut and (2) an option with Unity Gold Silver Mines, Inc. to earn a 60% interest on the Unity project in Idaho.

Alphamin Resources may be based in Canada, but its heart is in Mexico. The company primarily explores for gold and silver in the Durango and Guerrero states of Mexico. Its properties include El Violin, La Purisima, Jesus Maria, and San Rafael. Alphamin also has properties in Argentina, but it isn't currently developing these projects, while it focuses on developing its properties in Mexico. In 2009 it changed its name from La Plata Gold.

Service center operator Everglades Steel processes and distributes steel products such as angles, channels, flat bars and strips, pipe fittings, stainless steel, and tubing. It also offers aluminum and various alloy products; services include galvanizing and shearing and sawing. Everglades Steel serves customers in the bridge construction, cement, metal fabrication, mining, and sugar mill industries.

Metals service center operator Siskin Steel & Supply, a subsidiary of Reliance Steel & Aluminum, processes steel and aluminum using such techniques as laser and plasma cutting, sawing, and shearing. Products processed and distributed include aluminum (angles, cast plates, and square tubing), cold-finished steel bars (flats, hexagons, and squares), galvanized sheets (hot-dipped and galvannealed), hot-rolled alloy bars (flats and rounds), and miscellaneous beams and channels. Siskin Steel & Supply operates four service centers in the southeastern US. Siskin Steel & Supply company was founded in 1900; Reliance Steel bought it in 1996.

Weatherly International has charted a course in African natural resources businesses. It operates primarily through two subsidiaries, Weatherly Mining Namibia and Namibia Custom Smelters. The former owns mines in Namibia, Zambia and Burkina Faso, producing mainly copper and manganese, while the smelting operation handles materials from Africa, Eastern Europe, and South America. In 2009 East China Mineral Exploration and Development agreed to buy a just-more than 50% stake in the company, though that agreement was terminted early the next year. Weatherly also agreed to sell Namibia Custom Smelters to Dundee Precious Metals for about $33 million.

Olympic Steel, Inc. engages in the processing and distribution of processed carbon, coated, aluminum and stainless flat-rolled sheet, and coil and plate steel products in the United States. It offers various processing services, including cutting-to-length, slitting, and shearing; and higher value-added processes of blanking, tempering, plate burning, precision machining, welding, fabricating, and painting of steel parts. The company serves customers in carbon steel consuming industries, including manufacturers and fabricators of transportation and material handling equipment, construction and farm machinery, storage tanks, environmental and energy generation equipment, automobiles, food service and electrical equipment, and military vehicles and equipment, as well as general and plate fabricators, and steel service centers. Olympic Steel, Inc. was founded in 1954 and is headquartered in Bedford Heights, Ohio.

Dyson Group develops performance materials (metal composites, fibers) and thermal products (ceramics, refractories). Some of the company's products include Ecoflex catalytic converter components and Saffil polycrystalline chemical fibers, both developed by Dyson's Saffil subsidiary. Dyson Group company also has a US subsidiary, Millennium Materials, which develops metal matrix composites, primarily under the Carolite name, that are used in hard disk substrate manufacturing. It also makes lightweight metal and ceramic composite materials that are used by the aerospace, automotive, telecommunications, and electronics industries. Dyson was founded in 1810.

Intrepid Potash, Inc. has become the largest producer of potash (potassium chloride) in the United States. In addition, it produces three valuable byproducts: Solar Salt, Magnesium Chloride brine and Sulfate of Potash Magnesia.Potash is a critical fertilizer, providing one of eight essential nutrients and is vital to the creation of protein. It is necessary and widely used to grow corn, wheat, soybeans, potatoes, hay and numerous other crops. The United States currently imports almost 85% of its potash needs.Headquartered in Denver, Colorado, Intrepid Potash, Inc. has two production facilities in Utah and three in New Mexico. These subsidiaries are named: Intrepid Potash - Moab, LLC, Intrepid Potash - Wendover, LLC and Intrepid Potash - New Mexico, LLC. These companies collectively employ approximately 745 people.Intrepid's top priorities are safety and long-term protection of the environment. We know this can work in concert with sustainable, low cost production. Each facility has extensive ore reserves. Intrepid Potash, Inc. is on the leading edge of solution mining technology, having successfully designed, drilled and placed into production the first horizontal potash caverns in the world at its Moab, Utah facility. This technology will soon be implemented at our Carlsbad complex, producing several hundred thousand low cost, solution mining tons. We have studied and implemented technologies from a variety of industries, oil & gas, hard rock mining, metals processing and more. We have extensive growth opportunities at every Intrepid facility. Our five year plan focuses on these internal opportunities, increasing production while decreasing costs and upgrading all facilities for our future.

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