Hydro Aluminum North America conducts its parent company's aluminum production throughout North America. The company divides its business into two units: Aluminum Products and Aluminum Metal. The former handles the company's extrusion operations, while the Aluminum Metal division produces aluminum billet. Its primary operations include aluminum extruded products, precision tubing, and products for the automotive industry. Norwegian metals giant Norsk Hydro is among the world's top five aluminum producers, and North America makes up a significant part of that business. The US is Norsk Hydro's largest market outside Europe, though it accounts for only about 10% of sales.

Metalor Technologies International smelts and refines precious metals for a wide range of uses. Its refining division recycles precious metals -- gold, silver, platinum, etc. -- and converts them into powders, grains, or ingots. From there, the metals are turned into technical coatings, components for the watch and jewelry industries, and silver contacts for the electrical industry and electrotechnics. The company has subsidiaries in 15 countries.

Descours & Cabaud is a steel processing company with operations primarily in France. About three-quarters of its 550 locations are situated in its home country, though it also has locations elsewhere in Western Europe as well as in Central Europe and North America. Operating through its Prolians and Dexis divisions, Descours & Cabaud company processes and delivers fasteners, high-grade and special steels, steel millwork, and other metal products worldwide. Customers range from building contractors, cutting toolmakers, hydraulics makers, and power transmission manufactures. Descours & Cabaud was founded in 1782 as an iron monger and is still under family control.

St Barbara is an Australian gold producer and mineral explorer. St Barbara's key assets include its Leonora and Sothern Cross Operations, both of which are located in Western Australia. It has Mineral Resources of 9.4 million ounces of gold including Ore Reserves of 2.6 million ounces of gold as at 30 June 2009, as well as an extensive landholding comprising granted tenements and tenement applications of approximately 6,000 square kilometres.The Leonora Operations comprise the Gwalia 1.2 Mtpa processing plant and the Gwalia Underground mine as well as nearby development opportunities. St Barbara's Gwalia gold mine was successfully commissioned in October 2008, with full production expected to be achieved in financial year 2012. Gwalia is the cornerstone asset for St Barbara with an indicative mine life exceeding eight years and high grade mineralisation below the current reserves.The Southern Cross Operations comprise the Marvel Loch 2.4 Mtpa processing facility, the Marvel Loch Underground mine and a number of development opportunities. The Southern Cross Operations have produced between 150,000 - 171,000 ounces for each of the last three years.Currently the two gold operations produce n aggregate over 200,000 ounces of gold per annum.St Barbara Company is listed on the Australian Stock Exchange (ticker symbol SBM).In addition to the two Western Australian gold producing operations, the corporate office is based in Melbourne, Victoria, with an operations support team based in Perth.

Universal Stainless & Alloy Products, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, manufactures and markets semi-finished and finished specialty steel products, including stainless steel, tool steel, and certain other alloyed steels primarily in the United States. Universal Stainless & Alloy Products company involves in melting, remelting, heat treating, hot and cold rolling, machining, and cold drawing semi-finished and finished specialty steels. It produces steel products in the form of ingots, blooms, billets, bars, slabs, and plates. Universal Stainless & Alloy Products company also offers conversion services on materials supplied by its customers, as well as produces customized shapes primarily for original equipment manufacturers. It sells its products to rerollers, forgers, service centers, original equipment manufacturers, and wire redrawers. Universal Stainless & Alloy Products company serves aerospace, power generation, petrochemical, and heavy equipment manufacturing industries. Universal Stainless & Alloy Products, Inc. was founded in 1994 and is headquartered in Bridgeville, Pennsylvania.

King’s Bay Gold Corporation (TSX.V: KBG) is an active mineral resource company, which is engaged in the acquisition of interests in, and the exploration of, mineral resource properties in North West Ontario. The Corporation’s mandate is to acquire, evaluate and bring significant gold and other precious metal properties to the development stage. During the last eleven years, the Corporation has been assembling a portfolio of precious metal exploration prospects most notably in the Red Lake gold camp, the majority of which are located in close proximity of present and past producing mines. Certain of these properties exhibit high-grade gold values, rare earths, rare metals and other industrially useful minerals and metals.The Corporation is unique in the industry in that it owns, and therefore controls for itself, most of the equipment required to carry out the various phases of exploration. Key pieces of this equipment include diamond drill rigs, bulldozers and skidders. Other equipment includes rod sloops, thousands of feet of BQ and NQ drill rods, water heaters for winter drilling, high pressure water pumps and nozzles for outcrop stripping, a fleet of trucks, all terrain vehicles and a shop full of spare parts and tools.The Corporation’s goal will always be growth. Strengthening the Corporation’s management team and Board of Directors, and by acquiring significantly advanced exploration projects may provide shareholders with an opportunity to increase the value of their investments over the long term.The Corporation’s shorter-term goals are to advance its projects to the feasibility stage, with the intent of becoming a small to medium tier minerals producer. The quality of the Corporation’s projects, an aggressive acquisitions strategy based on acquiring properties near present and past producers, and the proven background of the management team will allow the Corporation to become an emerging leader in the Canadian mining industry.King’s Bay Gold Corporation is a Winnipeg-based company that was incorporated pursuant to the Canada Business Corporations Act (“CBCA”) on March 20th, 1998. The Corporation became a publicly traded entity on the TSX Venture Exchange in April 2002 (TSX.V symbol: KBG). Since then, the Corporation has completed several prospective offerings and private placement offerings with the net capital raised being used to complete the exploration and development programs for the properties where it has land option and joint venture agreements.

Gammon Gold Inc., through its subsidiaries, engages in the acquisition, exploration, development, and mining of gold and silver deposits in Mexico. Gammon Gold, Inc. owns and operates the Ocampo mine in Chihuahua State, and the El Cubo mine in Guanajuato State, as well as the Guadalupe y Calvo advanced exploration property in Chihuahua State, Mexico; and leases the Las Torres gold-silver mine in Guanajuato State, Mexico. Gammon Gold, Inc. was formerly known as Gammon Lake Resources Inc. and changed its name to Gammon Gold Inc.

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.

In FY09, Harmony produced 1.46 million ounces of gold, making it one of the world’s largest gold mining companies. The group’s operations are located primarily on the Witwatersrand Basin in South Africa, encompassing ten underground operations, an open-pit mine and surface operations that encompass four provinces, Gauteng, North West Province, Mpumalanga and the Free State. The Company also operates an open-pit mine in Papua New Guinea. Harmony’s operations have grown significantly since 1995, expanding from a single, lease-bound mining operation into an independent, world-class gold producer. The group received additional mining rights in the Free State, Mpumalanga, Gauteng and North West province in South Africa when it acquired Lydex in 1997, Evander in 1998, Kalgold in 1999, Randfontein in 2000, ARMgold in 2003 and Avgold in 2004.

Worthington Industries has three primary business units and nine joint ventures. We operate as one company, which adds value for our customers through complete program management and shared expertise.Worthington Industries manages its business in a hub and spoke model; all of our business segments relate to our steel processing core competency. Worthington Steel serves as the hub in our model, and all other business segments and joint ventures fit in as spokes, meaning they all consume flat rolled steel.This model has helped Worthington Industries establish industry leadership in the steel processing, metal framing and pressure cylinders markets. In addition, joint ventures create innovative partnerships that complement our focus on metals-related markets. Integrated Building Systems, Steelpac Systems and Gerstenslager round out out our offering with construction services, custom shipping pallets and platforms and past model automotive body panels respectively.

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