Commercial Metals Company engages in recycling, manufacturing, fabricating, and distributing steel and metal products, as well as providing related materials and services in the United States and internationally. It involves in recycling operations through metal processing plants located in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kansas, Louisiana, Missouri, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Texas. Commercial Metals company also operates five steel minimills in Texas, Alabama, South Carolina, Arkansas, and Arizona that produce reinforcing bars, angles, flats, rounds, small beams, fence-post sections, and other shapes; a copper tube minimill; and a scrap metal shredder processing facility, as well as purchases and removes rail and other materials from abandoned railroads. In addition, Commercial Metals Company engages in fabrication operations through steel fabrication and processing plants that bend, weld, cut, fabricate, distribute, and place steel; warehouses that sell or rent products for the installation of concrete; plants that produce special sections for floors and support for ceilings and floors; plants, which produce steel fence posts; and plants that treat steel with heat. Additionally, Commercial Metals company purchases semi-finished long and flat steel products from international and domestic sources, and markets and distributes these products in the Americas. Further, it operates rolling mills that produce reinforcing bars, merchant products, and wire rods; and scrap processing facilities that directly support its minimill in Poland and Croatia, as well as manufactures electric arc furnace based steel pipes. Commercial Metals company also markets and distributes steel, copper, and aluminum coils; sheet and tubing; ores; metal concentrates; industrial minerals; ferroalloys; and chemicals. Its customers include steel, nonferrous metals, metal fabrication, chemical, refractory, and transportation businesses. Commercial Metals company was founded in 1915 and is based in Irving, Texas.

Alro Steel provides processing services such as aluminum circle cutting, CNC flame cutting, forming, and machining. Alro Steel Corporation company carries an extensive inventory of steel products, along with industrial tools and supplies. It offers plastic sheet, rod, tube, and film through its Alro Plastics division. Alro Steel Corporation company also distributes industrial tools and materials through subsidiary Alro Industrial Supplies. Alro Steel operates from more than 50 locations in 12 states, though about half of them are in Michigan. The company was founded in 1948.

Inlet Resources hopes to find copper at the end of the rainbow. The company is active in copper and nickel mining development in Canada. Inlet Resources owns mineral properties including a nickel and copper project in Quebec and a zinc property in British Columbia. The company, which is exploring its properties for mineral deposits, also believes platinum group metals are in the area. Inlet Resources abandoned its Red Lake gold project in Ontario during 2006 when it determined that the property would never yield sufficient returns.

Lithic Resources isn't interested in stone, but it is interested in the minerals attached to the stone. Lithic Resources explores the zinc/indium/copper Crypto property in Nevada. The Crypto project has been in development since its acquisition in 2005 from EuroZinc, which has since merged into Lundin Mining. Lithic Resources was founded in 2002 through the restructuring of Berland Resources.

North Star BlueScope Steel is a 50-50 joint venture between BlueScope Steel (Melbourne, Australia) and Cargill, Inc. (Minneapolis, MN). BlueScope Steel is Australia’s largest steel producer. The company also is known worldwide for its coated and painted steel products with facilities in Australia, Asia and North America. In 2004, BlueScope Steel acquired Butler Manufacturing, the leading pre-engineered steel buildings manufacturer in the United States and China.Cargill, Inc. is America’s second largest private company, the world’s largest grain trader and food processing company. The company has over 150,000 employees working in 68 countries throughout the world.The partnership brings together expertise in electric furnace steel making, slab casting and hot rolling technology in a synchronous flat rolled mini-mill. The steel mill is designed with a unique combination of proven technology to provide our customers a superior hot rolled product.

Patriot Coal Corporation engages in the production and sale of thermal coal in the United States. It has operations and coal reserves in Appalachia and the Illinois basin. The company provides its thermal coal to electric utilities, as well as metallurgical coal to steel mills and independent coke producers. It has 14 company-operated mines, contractor-operated mines, and coal preparation facilities that are located in West Virginia and Kentucky. As of December 31, 2009, Patriot Coal Corporation company controlled approximately 1.8 billion tons of proven and probable coal reserves. Patriot Coal Corporation, through its subsidiary, Magnum Coal Company, operates 8 mining complexes with production from surface and underground mines located in Appalachia, as well as controls approximately 600 million tons of proven and probable coal reserves. Patriot Coal Corporation company is based in St. Louis, Missouri.

True North Gems Inc.company is currently exploring and developing about a dozen properties, primarily Tsa da Glisza (emeralds) in the Yukon Territory, Beluga (sapphires) on Baffin Island, and Fiskenaesset (rubies) in Greenland. It also has rights to acquire interests in other emerald, sapphire, and ruby deposits in Canada. The company's one non-gemstone property is the Bandito nickel project in the Yukon. True North Gems was incorporated in 2001.

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.

Founded in Fort Wayne, Indiana, more than 65 years ago, OmniSource Corporation has grown to become one of North America's largest processors and distributors of scrap and secondary metals. We collect, process, and resell a wide variety of scrap metal. OmniSource company in 2008 shipped 5.6 million tons of recycled steel and 912 million pounds of nonferrous scrap.Our primary collection and processing facilities are in the Midwest, the Southeast, and the mid-Atlantic regions of the United States. But our reach stretches across North America, utilizing a wide-ranging fleet of trucks and containers, railcars, and barges to collect and haul metals. We expect to continue to expand OmniSource's footprint, deploying our processing assets to cover new geographical territories, opening new feeder yards, and making targeted acquisitions. Supplementing our company-operated scrap collection sites, we also acquire metals from industrial scrap generators with which we have established strategic partnerships. We have designed and installed customized metals-recycling programs, some of which we manage and operate, for manufacturing companies nationwide.Our national brokerage and trading operations serve both metals buyers and sellers, providing the market intelligence and insights needed to optimize transaction value.OmniSource was acquired in 2007 by Steel Dynamics, Inc., and operates independently as a wholly owned subsidiary.

NovaGold Resources Inc., through its subsidiaries, engages in the exploration and development of mineral resource properties in Alaska and British Columbia. It primarily explores for gold, silver, copper, zinc, and lead ores. NovaGold Resources Inc. was formerly known as NovaCan Mining Resources (1985) Limited and changed its name to NovaGold Resources Inc. in March 1987.

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