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.

Northern Steel Group is all about service. The unit of Severstal North America operates through a number of steel service centers spread throughout Illinois, Missouri, and Ohio. Formerly called Esmark, the company brings together subsidiaries including Sun Steel and Century Steel. Northern Steel also works closely with European steel maker Ferrostaal on a trading joint venture called United Steel Group. Northern Steel Group changed its name after its 2008 acquisition by Russian giant Severstal.

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.

Exeter Resource Corporation, an exploration stage company, together with its subsidiaries, engages in the acquisition and exploration of mineral properties in Chile. Its principal property is the Caspiche gold-copper property located in northern Chile. Exeter Resource Corporation was formerly known as Golden Glacier Resources Inc. and changed its name to Exeter Resource Corporation in June 2002.

Mitsubishi Corporation (MC) is Japan's largest general trading company (sogo shosha) with over 200 bases of operations in approximately 80 countries worldwide. Together with its over 500 group companies, MC employs a multinational workforce of approximately 60,000 people. MC has long been engaged in business with customers around the world in virtually every industry, including energy, metals, machinery, chemicals, food and general merchandise.MC seeks to contribute to the enrichment of society through business firmly rooted in principles of fairness and integrity.Although our activities encompass everything from trading to business investment, the essence of what we do at MC can best be described as focusing on the needs and seeds of customers and society, conceiving business models, and reliably providing functions and services to propel these businesses forward.For example, in trade, a historical mainstay of MC's operations, we are able to steadily provide high value-added services by utilizing our frontline businesses to gather information while linking together functions such as logistics, financing, and marketing.When MC invests in a business, we share risk with our partners and add value to the business by leveraging MC's organizational strength and global networks to procure necessary business resources.In addition, we provide optimal solutions for all stages of business—from development, procurement and production, to logistics and sales. Supporting the realization of these solutions, linking businesses and coordinating customer affiliations are all important MC functions.Furthermore, MC also anticipates trends in the market and society and takes initiative to develop new business.At MC, we constantly work to reinvent ourselves and have sought out cutting-edge functions required by businesses. For this purpose, our strong financial resources and risk management capabilities are of course invaluable, but we believe the foresight, initiative and ingenuity of our human resources represent our greatest assets.Through consistent and dedicated efforts, MC is committed to further strengthening the high level of trust earned from our customers over the years.

Metals service center operator Siskin Steel & Supply, a subsidiary of Reliance Steel & Aluminum, processes steel and aluminum using such techniques as laser and plasma cutting, sawing, and shearing. Products processed and distributed include aluminum (angles, cast plates, and square tubing), cold-finished steel bars (flats, hexagons, and squares), galvanized sheets (hot-dipped and galvannealed), hot-rolled alloy bars (flats and rounds), and miscellaneous beams and channels. Siskin Steel & Supply operates four service centers in the southeastern US. Siskin Steel & Supply company was founded in 1900; Reliance Steel bought it in 1996.

Prize Mining Corporation is a Calgary, Alberta based, junior resource company listed on the TSX Venture Exchange and the Frankfurt Exchange. The company's strategic focus is on developing near-term, low cost, gold production in Canada. The experienced management team is continuously working towards the goal highlighted in their mission statement: To become a gold producer through the development of Atlin and the strategic acquisition of other small high grade gold deposits that can share resources with the object to mining on a low cost, high recovery basis.Prize Mining's properties have been strategically selected in politically stable areas, easily accessible to exploration and production support. Prize Mining Corporation company has begun a 10,000 tonne bulk sampling program on its current focus, the Atlin Gold Property, located in northwestern British Columbia. The properties are located within a known placer gold producing area; more than one million ounces of placer gold (estimated) have been recovered during the last century from the Atlin area.

Tri Origin Exploration Ltd. is a Canadian company listed on the TSX-Venture Exchange under the symbol TOE which has been engaged in gold and base metal exploration and development in Canada and Australia for over a decade.In January of 2004, our Australian affiliate, TriAusMin Limited (formerly Tri Origin Minerals Ltd.) completed an Initial Public Offering and was listed on the Australian Securities Exchange under the symbol TRO. In January 2010, TriAusMin Limited was listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange and commenced trading under the symbol TOR.

At the outset of the establishment of CSC over thirty years ago, CSC pioneers and their fellow workers daringly adopted the 100% continuous casting production process which was considered to be the most up-to-date at the time, and later on decided that computerization of all operations was imperative. As a result of their decisions, CSC maintains certain international competitiveness whether it is privately owned or state-owned. Another comparative advantage CSC possesses is the valuable human resources that have been put through CSC employees are competent andwilling to make breakthroughs and innovations. They have all played major roles making CSC a role model in the steel business, and in its diversification programs.Entering its fourth decade and under the leadership of a management team headed by Chairman Chia-Juch Chang and President Y. C. Chen, on the domestic front CSC was instrumental in the integration of a number of activities among the local steel-related industries and set them on the right track of healthy development. On the international front, CSC aspires to have an impact on the global steel industry by fostering exchanges of steel production technology and establishing strategic cooperation. In addition, CSC hopes to play the part of an industry navigator by gathering resources from the society and people to promote the bio-tech and information industries.

HudBay Minerals looks below the surface to find profits. The company focuses on the exploration and production of zinc and copper, primarily in Canada's Manitoba province. HudBay operates several mines, production plants, and refineries located in Manitoba, Ontario, and Michigan. In addition to zinc and copper, it also produces silver and gold. HudBay attempted to expand through an $800 million combination with Canadian mining company Lundin Mining in 2008. The combined company would have been among the top three Canadian base minerals companies, but the two companies called off the deal early in 2009.

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