NanJing Iron and Steel is a master of metal production in the City of Stone. NanJing Iron and Steel company focuses on smelting and processing of ferrous metals, as well as producing coke and a variety of steel products (steel plates, bars, strips). Established in 1999, NanJing Iron and Steel operates 6 production facilities in China. NanJing Iron and Steel company produces more than 1 million tons of medium steel plates and 1 million tons of heavy steel plates and strips a year.

Consolidated Abaddon Resources would be happy with a pot full o flithium or uranium. Consolidated Abaddon Resources company owns properties in the Athabasca basin of northern Saskatchewan and the Red Lake mining district of northwestern Ontario. Consolidated Abaddon is exploring several properties with hopes of developing them into lithium, rare earth minerals, and uranium projects. Two of its uranium properties are jointly owned with Canterra Minerals and Denison Mines.

Nippon Steel rates as Japan's heavy lifter. Nippon Steel Corporation company, the world's second-largest steelmaker after ArcelorMittal, manufactures pig iron and ingots, steel bars, plates, sheets, pipes, and tubes, as well as specialty, processed, and fabricated steel products. Nippon Steel's annual crude steel output is roughly 31 million tons. The company's operations include engineering, construction, chemicals, nonferrous metals, ceramics, electricity supply, information and communications, and urban development (theme parks and condominiums). Nippon Steel also provides energy, finance, and insurance services.

Norilsk Nickel is the world’s largest producer of nickel and palladium and one of the leading producers of platinum and copper. It also produces various by-products, such as cobalt, chromium, rhodium, silver, gold, iridium, ruthenium, selenium, tellurium and sulfur.The Group is involved in prospecting, exploration, extraction, refining and metallurgical processing of minerals, as well as in production, marketing and sale of base and precious metals.Norilsk Nickel’s production facilities are located on four continents and in six countries: Russia, Australia, Botswana, Finland, the United States of America and South Africa.In Russia, the Company’s shares are traded on the Moscow Interbank Currency Exchange (MICEX) and the Russian Trading System (RTS). The ADRs of the Company’s shares are traded over-the-counter (OTC) in the United States, on the electronic International Order Book Unlisted section of the London Stock Exchange and on the Freiverkehr (OTC-section) of the Berlin-Bremen Stock Exchange. As a result of the share split, the Company’s shares convert into ADRs at a ration 1:10 effective since February 19, 2008.When determining the strategy for its global operations and future development, Norilsk Nickel is focused on compliance with all social and environmental responsibility principles in the various countries in which it operates, which is essential for ensuring sustainable and efficient business development.

Have you had your zinc today? Well, Asturiana de Zinc sure has. The company's core business is the refining and production of zinc metal. Its primary mining operation is the Reocín mine in Spain. Along with your run-of-the-mill ingots and wire, the company also produces zinc-based alloys, sulphuric acid, germanium dioxide, and good old zinc oxide. Asturiana de Zinc operates globally, with production units in Australia, North America, and South America in addition to its European operations. Its parent company, the Swiss metals giant Xstrata plc, has rolled its other zinc operations into Asturiana.

Canadian-based Eastplats was formed in 2003 with the objective of becoming a major producer of platinum group metals.In less than four years the Company has met its objectives by acquiring a portfolio of high-grade platinum and rhodium-rich deposits in South Africa's Bushveld Complex with resources containing over 85 million ounces of platinum group metals. The Bushveld Complex is internationally recognized as containing the world's largest resource of platinum group metals and is geologically unique as it is the world's only source of primary platinum production. In 2006, Eastplats became Canada's largest platinum group metals producer when it acquired a 69% indirect interest in Barplats Investments Limited. This acquisition was accompanied by a successful Cdn $150 million capital raising campaign, much of which has been invested in the Crocodile River Mine operations.n May 2007 Eastplats acquired an additional 5% of Barplats. Simultaneous with a listing on the JSE in May 2007, Eastplats completed a $200 million capital raising and announced plans to refurbish the existing Crocodile River Mine smelter.

CITIC Resources invests in energy and minerals exploration, development, and trading, focusing on oil exploration in mainland China, Indonesia, and Kazakhstan. The company was formerly engaged in the manufacturing and distribution of plywood but switched gears in 2004, the same year that China-owned investment group CITIC took a controlling stake. Since then it has built up an international portfolio of holdings including interests in Portland Aluminum Smelter (one of the largest in the world), the Coppabella and Moorvale coal mines in Queensland, and commodities trader CITIC Australia Trading. CITIC Group indirectly owns 54% of CITIC Resources.

Metorex Limited company controls the operations of several mining companies, which are prospecting for various metals in locations mostly in South Africa and Zambia. Metorex Limited company's holdings include Chibuluma Mines (copper, 90%-owned), Vergenoeg Mining (fluorspar, 70%-owned), and Pan African Resources (gold, 55%-owned), among others. Most of the company's sales come from copper and gold, but antimony, fluorspar, and cobalt also account for a large part of sales.

SLAM Exploration Ltd. is a mineral resource company based in Miramichi, New Brunswick and is focused on mineral properties with demonstrated ore grades in mineral belts that have proven potential for mining. SLAM Exploration Ltd. Company has well developed expertise for gold and base metal exploration and has an extensive digital database on the Bathurst Mining Camp. This combination has proven effective and allows SLAM to advance its known deposits and at the same time come up with new discoveries with huge blue-sky potential. SLAM Exploration Ltd. Company has an active portfolio of gold properties in Ontario and silver-copper-lead-zinc properties in New Brunswick.SLAM Exploration Ltd. Company recently announced drilling results from its Silverjack silver-copper-lead-zinc property located adjacent to the Nash Creek property and 12 km from the Belledune smelter and seaport in the Bathurst mining area of New Brunswick. From its initial 20-hole program, the Company reported grades ranging up to 653 g/t silver (19.05 oz/ton), 2.69% copper, 14.60% zinc and 12.8% lead.SLAM's wholly owned Nash Creek zinc-lead deposit contains a 43-101 compliant resource estimate published in February 2009 by Wardrop Engineering Inc. SLAM also owns the Costigan, Nepisiguit and Nash Creek zinc-lead-silver deposits in the Bathurst mining area.SLAM recently completed a 2000m drilling program to follow up significant gold intercepts reported from its 2008 drilling programs in the gold producing Uchi Sub-province of northwest Ontario and is eagerly awaiting assay results on several geologically promising holes, 4 of which had reported visible gold!SLAM Exploration Ltd. Company is seeking partners with both technical expertise and financial resources to continue with its strategies for project development. SLAM's long-term success depends on making discoveries, and the development of deposits into mines. While the company's current portfolio has excellent potential, SLAM continually searches for new properties and potential acquisitions. SLAM's future may rest on the ability of management to select promising properties and to finance exploration on these properties.

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.

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