Schnitzer Steel Industries, Inc. engages in recycling ferrous and nonferrous scrap metals, and used and salvaged vehicles; and manufacturing finished steel products in the United States and Canada. The company operates through three segments: Metals Recycling Business (MRB), Auto Parts Business (APB), and Steel Manufacturing Business (SMB). The MRB segment involves in the purchase, collection, processing, recycling, sale, and broking of recycled ferrous metals. It processes large pieces of scrap metal into smaller pieces by sorting, shearing, shredding, and torching. This segment’s products include ferrous products, including shredded, sheared, torched and bundled scrap metal, and other purchased scrap metal; and nonferrous scrap metals, including aluminum, copper, stainless steel, nickel, brass, titanium, and high temperature alloys. The APB segment purchases used and salvaged vehicles, and sells used parts from these vehicles through its auto parts stores. As of August 31, 2009, it operated 37 self-service, 16 full-service, and 2 hybrid auto parts stores in the United States and western Canada. The SMB segment engages in the purchase of recycled metal, and processing of the recycled metal and other raw materials into finished steel products. Its product portfolio comprises rebar, coiled rebar, wire rod, merchant bar, and other specialty products. This segment serves steel service centers, construction industry subcontractors, steel fabricators, wire drawers, and farm and wood product suppliers. Schnitzer Steel Industries, Inc. was founded in 1946 and is headquartered in Portland, Oregon.

In 2010 Norsk Hydro agreed to buy the Brazilian aluminum operations of Vale SA in a $5 billion deal. You may find the oil business fascinating, but Norsk Hydro no longer has any interest in the industry. Until 2007 its operations were divided more or less equally between aluminum and energy products. Norsk Hydro is now focused almost exclusively on its aluminum operations, which are strong throughout Asia, Europe, and North and South America, and rank among the world's top five, along with the likes of Rio Tinto Alcan, RUSAL, and Alcoa. In 2006 it combined its energy operations with Norwegian state-owned Statoil, though it still owns a small energy business with 17 hydroelectric power stations in Norway.

VANE Minerals Limited, was incorporated in April 2002 as a minerals exploration and development company primarily focused on defining and developing projects generated from the review of the Freeport Data Bank and from contacts of the Directors and their associates. VANE Minerals plc was admitted to AIM in 2004.VANE Minerals Company has a highly qualified and experienced group of exploration, development and management personnel capable of maximizing the potential of any project. AVEN Associates, the US subsidiary of VANE, has the benefit of four senior geologists, two of whom are directors of VANE Minerals plc, with cumulative experience in exploration, development and mining of over 150 years. VANE Minerals plc is also able to draw on other directors with further experience in assembling large exploration land positions, raising funds and initiating, organizing and managing start-up ventures.With its vast experience in porphyry copper exploration the team has assembled, through both contacts and the Freeport data base, a number of potential targets in the south west US area. These targets are being systematically investigated.Since December 2004, VANE (US) LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of VANE, has aggressively acquired an Uranium Portfolio in the US. VANE (US) LLC has built up a considerable portfolio of projects, covering both strata-bound deposits in Utah and the unique high grade breccia pipe projects in Northern Arizona, where on part of the district VANE has a 50/50 Joint venture agreement with Uranium One Exploration (USA) (“U1”) in which, in general terms, VANE does the exploration and U1 will do the mining, allowing VANE to concentrate on what it is good at, the exploration. The pipe portfolio now extends to approximately 130 targets, each pipe has the potential to contain between 1 and 5 million lbs of U3O8 at a grade in the region of 1% U3O8, amongst the highest grade in the US.VANE Minerals company now has a producing Silver/ Gold mine, Diablito and also a wholly owned mill in Mexico, helping finance the group's exploration programme. The Mill has the potential for additional capacity for feed from other projects other than Diablito and enables the company to seek further sources of cash flow in the region.VANE Minerals company also has Gold/ Copper exploration projects in Mexico and Paraguay.

Malaga Inc. is America's leading producer of tungsten ore and owns the only operating tungsten mine in the Americas. In February 2009, Malaga was successful in securing a 5-year supply agreement with a large tungsten end-user. The Pasto Bueno tungsten mine was purchased in 2005 by Malaga which has since invested more than 19.2 million dollars to restart and to increase tungsten production. Since 1941, more than 6 million tons of tungsten ore has been produced at Pasto Bueno. Current tungsten concentrate production is approximately 5,000 MTU per month (1 MTU = 10 kilos of tungsten concentrate) and Malaga expects to double this in 2010. Malaga produces one of the highest quality tungsten concentrates available in the world due to its low content of impurities.Malaga trades on the Toronto Stock Exchange (MLG), is a pure tungsten play, and is currently the only publicly traded tungsten producing company outside of China.

Anyang Iron & Steel manufactures a wide array of iron and steel products from facilities in the Henan province of China. Established in 1958, Anyang Iron & Steel company produces steel wire and plates, steel sections, tubes, coking products, pig iron, foundry iron, nodular iron tubes, and other end products. Its metal production encompasses some 50 grades and 2,000 specifications, with about 70% of its exports consisting of ship plates, steel used in pipelines, and other high value-added products. Anyang Iron & Steel company has a production capacity of about 10 million tons a year. Anyang has been investing in clean production technology to ultimately reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 1 million tons a year.

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.

Novus Gold thinks it might be nice to find gold. Currently it has no gold mining operations but it does intend to have some soon. Until it changed its name and business in 2009 the company had been known as Loubac Top Environmental and distributed wheeled carts for storing household waste and recyclables for municipal collection in Quebec. Though Novus Gold doesn't own gold properties yet it agreed to buy two in the Dominican Republic soon after the name change went into effect.

United Steel Service, Inc. (UNISERV) is a full-line service center handling a broad range of carbon and stainless steel products, specializing in custom and production slitting and rail industry component fabrication.Every member of the UNISERV team understands that satisfying the needs of our customers is key. We are first, last and always a customer-driven company.

Freegold Ventures Limited is a North American gold exploration company. Current projects include Golden Summit, Rob and Vinasale. On the Golden Summit Project in Alaska, exploration discovered new high-grade veins and bulk tonnage shear zones. At Freegold's Rob project drilling insected high-grade gold mineralization. Exploration was also undertaken on the Vinasale Gold deposit in an effort to expand the known 920,000 historical gold resource (not 43-101 compliant).

United States Antimony Corporation engages in the production and sale of antimony and zeolite products in the United States. The company offers antimony oxide that is primarily used in conjunction with a halogen to form a synergistic flame retardant system for plastics, rubber, fiberglass, textile goods, paints, coatings, and paper. Its antimony oxide is also used as a color fastener in paints, as a catalyst for the production of polyester resins for fibers and films, as a phosphorescent agent in fluorescent light bulbs, and as an opacifier for porcelains. The company also offers various grades of sodium antimonite, which is principally used as a fining agent for glass in cathode ray tubes used in television picture tubes, as well as a flame retardant; and antimony metal for use in bearings, storage batteries, and ordnance. In addition, it offers zeolite, which is used for various purposes, including soil amendment and fertilization, water filtration, sewage treatment, nuclear waste and other environmental cleanup, odor control, gas separation, and animal nutrition. The company was founded in 1968 and is based in Thompson Falls, Montana

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