BlueScope Steel is the leading steel company in Australia and New Zealand, supplying a large percentage of all flat steel products sold in these markets. The company's products play a big part in people's everyday lives, being vital components in suburban houses, landmark buildings and structures and popular makes of cars.We specialise in the production of flat steel products, including slab, hot rolled coil, cold rolled coil, plate and value-added metallic coated and painted steel solutions. Our steelworks at Port Kembla in New South Wales is the largest steel production facility in Australia and one of the world's lowest-cost producers of steel products.Within Australia, our BlueScope Lysaght business rollforms and supplies a range of steel building products, including roof and wall cladding, steel house framing, rainwater products such as guttering and downpipes, fencing, structural products such as purlins and flooring systems, meshes and walkways, and home improvement products. LYSAGHT® products are sold through distributors and suppliers Australia-wide.BlueScope Steel operates the only integrated flat products steelworks in New Zealand. In North American markets, the Company is well known for its outstanding range of steel products including premium quality hot rolled coil from its 50% JV in North Star BlueScope Steel, Steelscape's range of high quality metallic coated and painted steels such as Z-NAL®, TruZinc® and SPECTRASCAPE® steels, Butler Manufacturing and VP Building's range of customised steel pre-engineered buildings for the non-residential market, HCI Steel Building Systems' range of pre-engineered building solutions including self storage warehouses as well as framing and cladding systems, ASC Profiles' range of innovative steel building components and Metl-Span's market leading range of insulated steel panels.Metallic coating and painting plants are located in Australia, New Zealand, China, Thailand, Malaysia, Vietnam and Indonesia. These facilities are complemented by a network of roll-forming facilities across the Asia Pacific region that are unmatched by any other steel company.

Sandvik Materials Technology, a subsidiary of Swedish industrial giant Sandvik, manufactures stainless steel and alloy tube, strip, wire, and bar that are used mainly by the engineering and processing industries. The company's Kanthal unit makes silicon carbide heating elements, which are able to withstand a wide range of high temperature applications. The Sandvik Process Systems unit produces steel belts and press plates and installs steel belt systems for chemical and food processing facilities. The strip steel unit specializes in thin precision strip steel. The tubular products unit manufactures seamless stainless steel tubes. Sandvik Materials company also has a medical products business.

ydro Aluminium's products can be turned into anything from soda cans to car bodies. The company forms Norsk Hydro's aluminum business and accounts for just about all of the Norwegian industrial corporation's sales. Hydro Aluminium ranks among the world's top five aluminum producers along with the likes of Rio Tinto Alcan, RUSAL, and Alcoa. While based in Europe, Hydro conducts business worldwide and is particularly strong in North America and Asia. It divides its business into two units, aluminum metal (the upstream business) and aluminum products (the downstream business). The first segment produces bauxite, alumina, and primary aluminum products, while the second manufactures rolled and extruded products.

Introducing C-E Minerals a worldwide supplier of high quality aluminas, alumina-silica calcines, and fused minerals used in refractory, investment casting, semiconductor, abrasive, metal producing and many other industrial applications. With world headquarters in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania, C-E Minerals operates an integrated, global network of processing and distribution facilities, R&D laboratories, sales and service offices and other support activities throughout North America, Europe, Asia, South America, Australia and South Africa. All are dedicated to meeting the changing needs of our customers for superior quality, innovative and cost-effective products and services. C-E Minerals is a member of the Imerys family of companies. Imerys, headquartered in Paris, France, is an international supplier and trader of industrial minerals and building materials. C-E Minerals is a company dedicated to expanding its product lines, to developing new markets, and to enhancing its role as a leading manufacturer and supplier of high quality industrial minerals. Through its network of strategically positioned facilities, C-E Minerals provides a "circle of excellence" that allows the company to obtain the highest quality raw materials and distribute the finest products throughout the world.

Silver Quest Resources' holy grail isn't gold, it's silver. Silver Quest Resources company explores mostly silver, and some gold, properties in Western Canada, the US, and Mexico. It has about a dozen projects in British Columbia (the majority), the Yukon, the US (Nevada), and Mexico (Sonora). Silver Quest is looking for joint venture partners for the exploration of some of its properties. Some of the companies Mexican mines are in production; several properties are worked by Silver Quest Resources company but owned by Grupo Mexico.

Atna Resources is a mineral exploration company that purchases, explores, and develops mineral resource properties. Atna Resources concentrates on precious metals and operates in Canada, the United States, and Chile. While it does operate internationally, Atna's focus is developing its properties in the western US. Atna Resources greatest geographic concentration is in Nevada, home to seven gold projects. In 2008 it paid $26 million in stock to buy gold miner Canyon Resources, whose properties were already in production and located in close proximity to Atna's.

Deutsche Steinkohle is Germany's Old King Coal. The operating subsidiary of Germany's RAG Aktiengesellschaft, Deutsche Steinkohle (DSK) is the country's largest coal mining company. Its coal is used primarily for steel production and power generation. DSK operates seven mines in NorthRhine-Westphalia, one in the Saarland, and a coking plant in NorthRhine-Westphalia. RAG and Deutsche Steinkohle are owned by the state-run RAG Foundation, which was set up to oversee the dissolution of the German coal industry. The German government decided in 2007 that economic and environmental conditions make it infeasible to continue coal production in the country going forward, and so the industry will wind down by 2018.

Formerly focused on advertising, China Natural Resources has shifted its business plan from working on minds to working in mines. China Natural Resources operates through its Wuhu Feishang Mining Development unit, a producer of zinc, copper, gold, silver, and iron. Smelter operator Huludao Zinc Industry Co. is Wuhu's primary customer. Chairman and CEO Li Feilie owns a controlling stake in China Natural Resources, which he gained in the company's 2006 reverse acquisition of his Feishang Mining Holdings, after which it sold its iSense subsidiary (provided advertising, promotion, and PR services to clients in China and Hong Kong). China Natural Resources has since acquired a number of other mining projects, all located in China.

Aluminum and plastics products maker Loxcreen does its part to keep the outside out and the inside in. The company specializes in custom aluminum and vinyl extrusions; it also produces and supplies a full line of screen doors, storm doors, windows, roofing products (flashing and edging), and ventilation products (foundation vents, ridge vents, and soffit vents). Loxcreen also offers floor trim and weather stripping. The company operates manufacturing and distribution facilities throughout the US as well as one facility in Canada.

Anglo Platinum Limited is the world's leading primary producer of platinum group metals (PGMs) and accounts for about 40% of the world's newly mined platinum. The Company is listed on the JSE Limited. It delisted its secondary listing from the London Stock Exchange during 2009. The Group's mining operations were restructured in 2009. The former Rustenburg Section was split into the Bathopele, Khomanani, Thembelani, Khuseleka, and Siphumelele mines, while the former Amandelbult Section was split into the Tumela and Dishaba mines. Union Mine, Mogalakwena Mine and Twickenham Mine remained managed operations of the Group. In addition, the Group has a number of joint ventures. On 30 June 2009 Anglo Platinum sold and transferred control to Anooraq Resources (Anooraq) of an effective 51% of the formerly wholly owned Lebowa Platinum Mine (Lebowa) and an additional 1% of the Ga-Phasha, Boikgantsho and Kwanda joint-venture projects. The Group is also in joint venture with: ARM Mining Consortium Limited, a historically disadvantaged South African (HDSA) consortium, to operate the Modikwa Platinum Mine; Royal Bafokeng Resources, an HDSA partner, over the combined Bafokeng-Rasimone Platinum Mine (BRPM) and Styldrift properties; the Bakgatla-Ba-Kgafela traditional community, who hold a 15% share in Union Mine; Eastern Platinum Limited (subsidiary of Lonmin Plc) and its HDSA partner, the Bapo-Ba-Mogale traditional community and Mvelaphanda Resources to operate the Pandora Joint Venture; and Xstrata Kagiso Platinum Partnership, to operate the Mototolo Mine. Anglo Platinum also has pooling-and sharing-arrangements with Aquarius Platinum (South Africa), covering the shallow reserves of the Aquarius Kroondal and Marikana mines that are contiguous with Anglo Platinum's Rustenburg mines. The Group's smelting and refining operations are wholly owned through Rustenburg Platinum Mines Limited and are situated in South Africa. These operations treat concentrates not only from the Group's wholly owned operations, but also from its joint ventures and third parties. Elsewhere in the world, the Group is developing the Unki Platinum Mine in Zimbabwe and is actively exploring in Brazil. It has exploration partners in Canada, Russia and China.

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