Brigadier Gold Limited is a Toronto-based exploration company focused on mineral exploration in the prolific Kirkland Lake-Larder Lake, Matachewan and Porcupine gold mining camps in Northern Ontario. Brigadier Gold’s shares trade on the TSX Venture Exchange under the symbol BRG. Brigadier’s strategy is to enhance shareholder value by acquiring and developing prospective gold exploration properties in world-class Canadian mining camps alone or in conjunction with joint venture partners able to advance projects to production.Through a recent agreement with ValGold Resources Ltd., Brigadier has acquired the right to earn up to an 80% interest in the Hunter Gold Mine, a past gold producer located in the Porcupine gold camp of the Timmins mining area. Brigadier’s other core assets are in the Kirkland Lake-Larder Lake and Matachewan areas in northeastern Ontario, where over 37 million ounces of gold have been produced from 25 mines.

Ruukki UK meddles around construction sites in the UK. Ruukki UK company, a unit of the Finnish metals company Rautaruukki, sells load bearing structural decks, non-combustible composite panels, cladding systems, and structural trays. Products are used in construction roofing, panel, and cladding applications. ProSpan Cladding Products was merged with Ruukki UK in 2005 when Rautaruukki acquired a majority interest in ProSpan parent company, Metalplast.

One of Japan's leading steel companies, Kobe Steel makes more than enough wire and rod to cage its markets. A diversified manufacturer, Kobe Steel also makes aluminum, copper, and titanium products, and it produces welding products, such as welding robots, and industrial machinery, including compressors and crushers. Kobe Steel, Ltd. company, informally called Kobelco, also provides wholesale power supply, operating two power plants in Kobe. Kobe Steel's real estate division rents, manages, and sells properties. Kobe Steel, Ltd. company has begun supplying titanium for a variety of uses, including aerospace applications.

Jupiter Aluminum aims to shine in the galaxy of aluminum producers. The company manufactures aluminum coil that is primarily used to make building and construction products such as drip edge, gutters and downspouts, screen frames, trim and soffits, and vents and louvers. The company's coil products also are used by manufacturers of cookware, irrigation equipment, license plates, and sign blanks. Jupiter Aluminum provides both mill-finish and painted coils. The company makes its products from recycled aluminum, purchasing scrap such as aluminum wire and cable, painted aluminum, and used beverage cans before processing the scrap into its end products. Jupiter Aluminum was founded in 1992.

Sumitomo Metal Industries, Ltd., together with its subsidiaries, engages in the manufacture and sale of steel and related products primarily in Japan. The company’s products include hot strip, cold strip, electromagnetic steel sheets, hot-dip galvanized steel sheets, electrolytic galvanized steel sheets, high-tensile-strength steel plates and sheets, pre-painted steel sheets, precoated steel sheets, steel plates for structural uses, steel plates for low-temperature service, steel plates for line pipe, H-shapes, fixed outer dimension H-shapes, lightweight welded beams, sheet piles, steel pipe piles, slabs, steel billets, pig iron for steel making, and titanium products. It also offers seamless steel tubes and pipes, electric resistance welded tubes and pipes, large-diameter arc-welded pipes, hot ERW, specially shaped tubes, coated tubes and pipes, and stainless steel tubes and pipes.In addition, Sumitomo Metal Industries company provides railway, automotive, and machinery parts, including wheels, axles, bogie trucks, and gear units for electric cars and couplers; and materials for molds, die forged crankshafts, aluminum wheels, flange for transmission tower, crane wheels, and rolls. Additionally, it offers special quality bars, cold heading wire rods, spring quality bars, machining steel, bearing steel, stainless bars and wire rods, and stainless steel precision rolled strips. Further, Sumitomo Metal Industries offers steel bridges, steel structures for civil engineering, pipelines, and thermal plant and pipeline engineering services. The company also provides IC packages and electronic modules, as well as involves in the lease and sale of real estate; and research and testing specializing in materials analysis and evaluation. In addition, it engages in the land and sea transport of steel materials; and electric power supply. Sumitomo Metal Industries was founded in 1897 and is headquartered in Osaka, Japan.

Norfolk Iron and Metal provides our customers with quality product, unequaled service, and timely delivery.In today’s competitive marketplace, we know that our success is directly dependent on your success. In order to better serve your needs, we’ve streamlined our operations, opened additional service centers in Durant Iowa, Greeley Colorado and Emporia, Kansas and a cold reduction line temper mill in Rock Island, Illinois. We are constantly searching for new ways to provide you with top quality product at competitive prices.Our sales representatives, vast inventory, processing, and our ability to deliver our product where and when you need it, has become a hallmark of trust that we share with each of our customers.

Vancouver-based Augusta Resource Corporation is a base metals company focused on advancing the Rosemont copper-moly deposit near Tucson, Arizona. Rosemont currently hosts a large copper/molybdenum reserve that may account for about 10% of US copper output once in production in 2012. The exceptional experience and strength of Augusta’s management team, combined with the developed infrastructure and robust economics of the Rosemont project, will propel Augusta to become a solid mid-tier copper producer within the next three years. Augusta is traded on the Toronto Stock Exchange and the NYSE Alternext under the symbol AZC, and on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange under the symbol A5R.

Nordural, also known as Nordic Aluminum, operates the Nordural primary aluminum reduction facility located in Grundartangi, Iceland. The primary aluminum metal manufacturer has a production capacity of about 260,000 tons per year, having expanded the facility from less than 100,000 tons annually in the last half decade. Customers include metals giants BHP Billiton and Glencore. US aluminum producer Century Aluminum owns Nordural.

Kumba Iron Ore Limited, a member of the Anglo American plc group, is a leading value-adding supplier of the highest quality iron ore to the global steel industry. The South African based company is the fourth largest supplier of seaborne iron ore in the world, exporting more than 34 million tonnes per annum to steelmakers in Europe, the Middle-East, and Asia. Kumba has reserves of more than a billion tons of high quality haematite.Kumba Iron Ore Limited company operates two opencast mines in South Africa – Sishen Mine and Thabazimbi Mine. Together they produce more than 40Mt of iron ore per annum (Mtpa), which accounts for 81% of South Africa’s total production and around 4% of the global seaborne trade. The combined reserves of these mines exceed one billion tons of high quality iron ore.An expansion project named Kolomela, which uses jig technology, is ramping up to reach a capacity of 13Mtpa in 2010. A new greenfields project will supply an additional 9Mtpa by 2013.Thabazimbi Mine’s product is sold exclusively to ArcelorMittal South Africa.In 2008 Kumba received a new order mining right to proceed with the Kolomela project and converted old order mining rights for the existing Sishen and Thabazimbi mines. Receiving these rights enabled the company to focus on the extraction of the resources and significantly strengthened business security.Kumba has been exporting iron ore to Europe and Japan since 1976 and has established enduring relations with the most significant steel mills in these countries. These customers regard Kumba as a strategic supplier of superior iron ore that enhances their furnaces’ efficiencies. The company was also a “first mover” into China by investing in the port of Qingdao in the early 1990s. This enabled Kumba to secure its customer base in Northern China and to take full advantage of the remarkable growth in the Chinese steel industry when production quadrupled during the commodities boom of 2000 – 2008.

Aurubis sure hopes you upgrade kitchenware to include some copper pots. The company operates two main business segments. The company's copper production unit produces 1 million tons of copper cathodes (a 99.9%-pure form of copper) from ore, recycling materials, and scrap. Its second business unit, copper processing, then uses this copper to cast wire rod and shapes, copper alloys, and rolled products. The company produces another 1.2 million tons of copper products each year. Customers include companies in the chemical, electronics, automotive, and construction industries. Aurubis bought Belgian copper company Cumerio for about $1 billion in 2008 and changed its name from Norddeutsche Affinerie the next year.

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