ASARCO was organized in 1899 as American Smelting And Refining COmpany. Originally a consolidation of a number of lead-silver smelting companies, the Company has evolved over the years into an integrated producer of copper, and other metals.ASARCO has solvent extraction/electrowinning product at its Ray and Silver Bell mines in Arizona. ASARCO operates copper smelters in Hayden, Arizona, and El Paso, Texas, which combined produce in excess of a billion pounds of anodes annually. Operations at the El Paso smelter were suspended in February 1999. The Company’s Amarillo Copper Refinery in Texas and the SX/EW plants at the Ray and Silver Bell mines produce about 375 million pounds of refined copper per year.ASARCO recognizes and believes that all operations and activities of the Company should be conducted responsibly and in a manner designed to protect the health and safety of its employees, its customers, the public and the environment. ASARCO’s operations interact with the environment daily, and consideration of these concerns must be a way of life within the Company. ASARCO is committed to a responsible management of our natural resources. The Company is a fully integrated miner, smelter and refiner of copper in the United States. ASARCO’s domestic mines annually produce approximately 350 - 400 million pounds of copper. Significant copper mines include the Mission, Silver Bell and the Ray open-pit mines, all three in Arizona.

Toyota Tsusho has been growing steadily together with the automotive business as the main axis. Tomen also has been developed with a wide range of business and customers in non-automotive field. Two companies merged on April 1,2006, and started as newborn Toyota Tsusho Corporation. The newborn Toyota Tsusho group, using the know-how of a global network and as the only trading company group that deeply involved in a idea of manufacturing, aim at a new trading company group that make flexible ideas and an adequate proposal.

TenarisDalmine - sede operativa di Tenaris in Italia - e il primo produttore italiano di tubi di acciaio senza saldatura per l'industria energetica, automobilistica e meccanica, con una capacità produttiva annua di 950.000 tonnellate di prodotti finiti, oltre 3.000 dipendenti e 5 stabilimenti in Italia. Tenaris, grazie ad una rete globale integrata di unita produttive, laboratori di ricerca e sviluppo e centri di servizio, soddisfa le necessita dei suoi clienti in modo efficiente e con prodotti ad alte prestazioni in ambienti operativi sempre piu complessi. Tenaris ha un fatturato annuale di 10 miliardi di dollari e 23.500 dipendenti.

Gerdau is the leading company in the production of long steels in the Americas and one of the major suppliers of specialty long steel in the world. It started to expand its operations more than a century ago and now has an industrial presence in 14 countries: Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, the Dominican Republic, Guatemala, India, Mexico, Peru, Spain, the United States, Uruguay and Venezuela.Gerdau company has operations in nearly all Brazilian states, producing long and specialty steel. The products, marketed and sold across five continents, supply the civil construction, industry and the farming and livestock sectors. These products are present in our everyday lives in a variety of different formats: they serve as the structural basis of houses, shopping centers, hospitals, bridges and hydroelectric plants; they make up part of power and telephone transmission towers, are used as raw materials in car parts and are also utilized in farming activities.With shares listed on the São Paulo, New York, Toronto, Madrid and Lima stock exchanges, Gerdau seeks efficiency and growth with maintained profitability, while remaining permanently committed to sustainable development.

Atacama Minerals Corp. is a publicly traded industrial minerals company based in Vancouver, Canada. The Company holds a 100% interest in the Aguas Blancas iodine/sulphate/nitrate mine located in northern Chile. Iodine production commenced from Aguas Blancas in 2001 and Atacama product is now shipped worldwide. A phased development plan is underway to further develop the mine's iodine and nitrate resources. The Company trades on the TSX Venture Exchange under the symbol "AAM". The Company has also acquired a new potash exploration project on the northeastern coast of Brazil. The "Salvador Potash Project", located along the Atlantic coast within the highly prospective on-shore portion of the Reconcavo Basin, covers an area of approximately 1,700 square kilometers. The project is located 45 kilometers west of the port city of Salvador, Bahia with excellent infrastructure.

Service Center Metals (SCM) does not deal in retail. Service Center Metals company specializes in soft aluminum extrusions (bars, beams, and tubes) selling and distributing its products exclusively through metal service centers. SCM sources it's aluminum billets from Alcoa and produces more than 1,000 different variants on the aluminum rod, bar, pipe, or tube theme. Service Center Metals company produces more than 80 million pounds of extrusions a year with a total capacity of about 100 million pounds. Service Center Metals company was founded in 2001 by Scott Kelley, Chip Dollins, and Randolph Weis.

Thundermin Resources Inc. is a Canadian-based mineral exploration company focused on the exploration for and discovery of economically viable base metal and gold deposits in Canada. Thundermin’s corporate objective is to become a profitable, producing mining company in the years ahead.Thundermin currently has an interest in, or the right to acquire an interest in, 11 base metal and gold properties in Canada. Thundermin also has royalty interests in a further 28 base metal and gold properties located in Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Quebec and British Columbia. In total, these properties host three gold deposits and nine base metal deposits as well as other gold and base metal mineralizaton of significance.

National Coal Corp. (Nasdaq:NCOC) was founded in January 2003 by a management team with proven experience in coal mining, business and engineering. Since its inception, the Company has focused on consistently delivering high quality bituminous steam coal to its customers in the Southeastern United States. We have accomplished this all while building an operation focused on increased productivity, superior land reclamation, strategic partnerships and safety.National Coal, poised for growth and long-term returns, has a culture of corporate and business responsibility that filters throughout all of its operations. From its innovative business practices to its respect for the community at large, it continues to prove itself a responsible and reliable coal company.

Thomas Steel Strip has a few cold ones for automakers and other hard-working companies. The subsidiary of British steel producer Corus Group manufactures cold-rolled specialty steel strip for the appliance, automotive, battery, electrical/electronic, office products, and other industries. Brand names include NiZn-Cote, NICOR, and HILUMIN (steel strip for battery makers). The company's products are primarily sold in North America. It is a part of its parent's Corus Special Strip division. Corus itself is owned by Tata Steel.

BHP Billiton Plc, together with its subsidiaries, operates as a diversified natural resources company. Billiton engages in exploration, production, development, and marketing of oil and gas properties. It also engages in mining of bauxite, refining of bauxite into alumina, and smelting of alumina into aluminum metal; and mining of copper, silver, lead, zinc, uranium, nickel, molybdenum, gold, diamonds, titanium, manganese, iron ores, metallurgical coal, and thermal or steaming coal. In addition, Billiton produces manganese metal and alloys. It operates in Australia, China, Europe, Japan, North America, South Korea, South America, Africa, other Asian countries, and rest of the world. The company, formerly known as Billiton Plc, was incorporated in 1996 and is based in London, the United Kingdom. BHP Billiton Plc operates as a subsidiary of BHP Billiton Group.

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