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.

Founded in 1988, WGI Heavy Minerals, Incorporated (WGI) is a publicly traded company listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX) as WG. WGI is a worldwide operating company focused on locating, producing and marketing industrial minerals and related products.WGI Heavy Minerals, Incorporated is a marketer of industrial grade minerals sourced primarily out of India, producer of industrial-grade garnet out of Idaho and Germany and manufacturer of replacement parts for ultra-high pressure waterjet machine tool systems around the world.

Steel Dynamics, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, manufactures and sells steel products in the United States. It operates in three segments: Steel Operations, Metals Recycling and Ferrous Resources Operations, and Steel Fabrication Operations. The Steel Operations segment offers hot rolled, cold rolled, and coated steel products, including light gauge hot-rolled, galvanized, and painted products; structural steel beams and pilings; rail products; special bar quality and merchant bar quality rounds, and round-cornered squares; billets and merchant steel products, such as angles, plain rounds, flats, and channels; and specialty structural steel sections. This segment serves cold finishers, forgers, intermediate processors, original equipment manufacturers, steel service centers, distributors, and fabricators. The Steel Fabrication Operations segment engages in fabricating trusses, girders, steel joists, and steel decking used within the nonresidential construction industry. The Metals Recycling and Ferrous Resources Operations segment offers heavy melting steel, busheling, bundled scrap, shredded scrap, and other scrap metal products, such as steel turnings and cast iron used in foundry and steel mill applications. Steel Dynamics company was founded in 1993 and is headquartered in Fort Wayne, Indiana.

Major Drilling Group International Inc. is one of the world's largest drilling service companies serving the mining industry. To support its customers' varied drilling requirements, Major Drilling maintains field operations and offices in Canada, the United States, South and Central America, Asia, Africa and Australia. Major Drilling provides all types of drilling services including surface and underground coring, directional, reverse circulation, RAB, geotechnical, and environmental drilling. Major Drilling's stock trades on The Toronto Stock Exchange under the symbol "MDI".

Sadoff & Rudoy Industries can get pretty scrappy. This mini-conglomerate operates seven facilities focused on satisfying the needs of mills and foundries by providing various grades and types of scrap metal. Sadoff & Rudoy provides scrap metal processing, industrial services (environmental audits, compactors, and containers), melt products (premium scrap grades), nonferrous products (aluminum, copper, and brass), and auto and dealer services (processed and unprocessed scrap). Operating companies include Alfred Muchin, Block Iron & Supply, Gus Holman, Lawent Iron & Metal, Sadoff & Rudoy Industries of Nebraska, and Sadoff Iron & Meta

Duferco was established in 1979 by Bruno Bolfo, Chairman of the Board, and a group of other steel professionals to exploit the advantages of "emerging markets" steel production. At its inception, Duferco was based in New York, NY, and Sao Paulo, Brazil. The Company, through its relationship with local steel producers, quickly became the leading independent exporter of Brazilian steel throughout the world. Duferco's growth and profitability was based upon close relationships with key Brazilian producers (Cosipa/CSN/CST/Acominas and Usiminas) and the establishment of a small sales network, predominately in the US and in the Far East (Duferco's first office in the Far East was in Thailand, which opened in 1980).In the early 1980's, using its success in Brazil as a springboard, Duferco began to source steel products from other countries. First, Duferco concentrated on other South American countries, with its largest success in Argentina, Venezuela and Mexico. Leveraging on that success, Duferco began to develop purchasing operations in North America and Europe, with its first European office opening in London in 1981. Duferco then proceeded to open a chain of offices in the Pacific Rim that came on line in the late 1980's. After Thailand, the Company opened offices in Taiwan, the Philippines, Singapore, Hong Kong, China and South Korea.In the mid 1990's, the Company opened a large number of offices in Eastern Europe, putting in place an infrastructure in anticipation of the growth of the area as an export market. Duferco also launched ancillary trading operations in the field of raw materials primarily related to the steel industry, such as coke, coal, iron ore, scrap, pig iron, D.R.I., and related products, maximizing its contacts with steel producers throughout the world.In the mid 1990's, two occurrences in Europe presented an opportunity to Duferco. The first was the beginning of a consolidation in European steel, which caused severe financial hardship for smaller European mills. This presented opportunities for Duferco in Italy (Duferdofin), Belgique and Eastern Europe. The second was the restructuring of the Italian steel industry, which caused many steel professionals to enter pre-pension at an early age (50). This permitted Duferco to create an experienced industrial team to manage its properties.Duferco's acquisition of all assets from Ferdofin Siderurgica in receivership (now Duferdofin) was the first step in 1996, followed by many other opportunistic participations/acquisitions, such as Duferco Clabecq (1997), Makstil Skopje (1998), Duferco Farrell Corp. (1999), Duferco La Louvière (1999) and various distribution centers in Europe.

Darnley Bay Resources thinks there's nothing wrong with combining something base with something sparkling. Darnley Bay Resources company explores and develops diamond deposits as well as properties containing the base metals nickel, copper, and platinum/palladium, primarily in the Northwest Territories of Canada. Darnley Bay Resources' primary project is in a region near Paulatuk, Canada in the Northwest Territories. It explores there through a joint venture agreement with mining property developer Diadem Resources.

Orvana is a gold producer with significant growth opportunities and a strong balance sheet. Orvana owns and operates the Don Mario Mine in Eastern Bolivia and is developing two promising assets: the recently acquired El Valle-Boinás/Carlés gold-copper project in Northern Spain and the Copperwood copper project in Upper Peninsula of Michigan, United States.With a growing pipeline of promising mineral assets and an experienced management team, Orvana is poised to become a mid-tier, multi-mine gold and copper producer. Orvana is focused on building long-term value for its shareholders through production growth and strategic acquisitions.

Yes, Golden Queen Mining is young and sweet, but it's well past the age of 17. Formed in 1985, Golden Queen Mining is developing a gold and silver operation at its Soledad Mountain property in Southern California. It also hopes to produce construction aggregate at the property. though development at the property took place in the 1990s, it was put on hold due to low metals prices and a lack of funding it was halted in 2000. Golden Queen is now in the beginning phase of development.

Kiska Metals loves Whistler, but that doesn't mean it likes skiing in British Columbia or even that painting of the old lady in black. Rather, the Whistler project is a gold/copper/silver property that is the company's exploration and development focus. Kiska Metals also owns exploration prospects elsewhere in the US, as well as in Australia, Canada, and Mexico. Kiska Metals company was formed through the 2009 merger of Rimfire Minerals and Geoinformatics Exploration. In 2010 Kiska agreed to buy Copper Joe, a copper-gold-molybdenum porphyry prospect near its Whistler project in Alaska, for $10 million.

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