Sumitomo Metals is at the forefront of the Japanese seamless pipe industry. In 1998, despite a sluggish oil industry activity, as well as a trend of strategic restructures among tubular manufacturers, Sumitomo Metals concentrated all of its proprietary technology in the construction of a state-of-the-art medium size seamless pipe making plant This plant besides being extensively automated, inaugurated numerous innovative technologies developed in house represented by the High-Toe-Angle Piercer, dinamically adjustable sizer, inline heat treatment and so on.In 1999, the new steel making plant, which is another embodiment of SMI technology, was constructed next to the medium size pipe making plant and directly connected to it, to become the world's first in line pipe making process.Thanks to these best-in-class facilities, Wakayama Steel Works boasted quality and productivity, and consolidated Sumitomo Metals' position as the leading pipe technology company.Besides Wakayama Steel Works where Carbon steel, low alloy steel, and martensitic stainless steel grades are produced, Sumitomo Metals operates another seamless pipe manufacturing plant, Amagasaki Tube Works which has been fulfilling the majority of CRA OCTG worldwide demand of such as Duplex stainless steel and Nickel based alloy.Sumitomo Metals has historically been the leading pioneer in developing high performances OCTG and a number of Major Oil and Gas companies have selected Sumitomo Metals as a long term partner.The Company's large diameter welded pipes produced in Kashima Steel Works have been deployed all over the world in oil and natural gas pipelines. In the domestic boiler tube market, Sumitomo Metals fulfills approximately 80% of the demand for the main tubes of thermal power generation plants and for boiler tubes used in large-scale industrial projects. Our electric-resistance welded pipe sector has been integrated into Sumitomo Pipe&Tube Co., Ltd. operations in 1999.Sumitomo Metals Pipe and Tube company together with Sumitomo group sister companies have built a world-wide reputation of quality and innovation as a manufacturer of critical application tubular used across a number of industries.

Planet Exploration explores many parts of the planet. The junior mineral exploration company has active gold projects in Canada (Red Lake Mining), Mongolia (Argalant Project - gold/copper projects), and Mexico (Copalquin gold/silver projects). In 2005 Planet Exploration company wroteoff its Wulonbulang Gold Project in China. Fellow Canadian gold mining company Goldcorp owns nearly 20% of Planet Exploration and is involved as a partner in the Red Lake Mining project.

The Mill Steel Company founded Mill Steel in 1959 with little more than a basement desk, a phone, and a belief that superior service and integrity would lead to success.Fifty years later, Mill Steel is one of North America's premier flat-rolled steel suppliers. And while Harry's son, David, now is leading the company, we continue to grow by sticking to our founding principles: Reliability. Accountability. And doing what we say we will, and then some.We've organized our company around those values, investing in new technologies and markets, along the way.

The American Industrial Revolution was well underway. The year was 1895. And in the quiet northwestern New Jersey town of Asbury, an important American enterprise was born. Harry M. Riddle founded what is today Asbury Carbons, Inc. He became a hard worker at an early age, doing chores on the family farm, and then walking some five miles to work at a general store. By the time he was 24, he was part owner of two general stores, one in Asbury, New Jersey, and another located in the nearby village of Hampton. He was also Asbury's postmaster. However, he had much greater ambitions, and when a friend told him about the wide applications of graphite and its untapped industrial potential he was determined to become involved in the business. In 1895, Riddle leased an Asbury flour mill that was owned by a relative and powered by the swiftly flowing Musconetcong River. The mill had been built in 1865 to replace one constructed in the late 1700s. Riddle then hired a miller and transformed the operation so that instead of grist it now milled refined graphite, produced from raw material, some of which he bought from a small Rhode Island mine. Most raw graphite, however, was imported from Korea and Ceylon by New York City brokers. The barrels of raw graphite came by rail to a nearby New Jersey train station and transported the final miles to the mill by horse and wagon. Riddle called his new company Asbury Graphite Mills. To market his product, Riddle, not surprisingly, relied on the U.S. mail. He wrote letters to potential customers�foundries and manufacturers of such goods as paint and stove polish�and enclosed a sample. It proved an effective technique, as sales grew rapidly, from 36 tons of material to 144 tons during the first three years. Business was so strong that in 1903 Riddle paid $2,000 to buy the mill, and five years later bought another mill across the river. Known as "Plant No. 2," this facility would be continually upgraded and become the hub of Asbury's operation. The original plant, on the other hand, was used only intermittently and was finally closed in the 1970s.

Cambridge Mineral Resources is getting a degree in the school of hard rocks. Precious and shiny ones too. Cambridge Mineral explores for gold, silver, copper, zinc, and lead mostly in Peru and Spain. In Spain, its primary project is the Lomero-Poyatos deposit, located in the mining region of the Iberian Pyrite Belt. Cambridge Mineral is also developing projects in Serbia, Bulgaria, and Colombia.

Uranium Energy Corp (NYSE-AMEX: UEC) is a U.S.-based exploration and development company with the objective of near-term uranium production in the U.S. using advanced, low-cost in-situ recovery (ISR) methods.The Company’s operations are managed by professionals with a recognized profile for excellence in their industry, a profile based on many decades of hands-on experience in the key facets of uranium exploration, development and mining.Uranium Energy Corp Company controls one of the largest databases of historic uranium exploration and development in the country. Using this knowledge base, the Company has acquired and is advancing exploration properties of merit throughout the southwestern U.S.The Company’s fully licensed and permitted Hobson processing facility is central to all of its projects in South Texas, including the Palangana in-situ recovery project, which is fully permitted, and the Goliad in-situ recovery project, which is in the final stages of mine permitting for production.Uranium Energy Corp Company is well financed to aggressively pursue its key development targets.

The Doe Run Company assures us that no female deer are harmed in the production of its metal products. The fully integrated company is primarily involved in the entire lead production process, from mining to milling to smelting and refining. It is also engaged in the recycling and fabrication of lead and lead products. The company's recycling unit handles about 150,000 tons of lead annually. Doe Run has operations in Arizona, Missouri, and Washington. The Doe Run company also has an affiliate, Doe Run Peru, which mines lead and other nonferrous metals in Andes region. It's a part of the Renco Group, which also owns a stake in auto maker AM General among several other businesses.

Liberty Mines Inc. is a producer of nickel and is focused on the exploration, development and production of nickel, copper, cobalt and platinum group metals from its properties in Ontario, Canada. It owns and operates the Redstone nickel concentrator near Timmins Ontario.The Redstone and McWatters nickel mines near Timmins are in commercial production. The Hart nickel project is currently in the permitting stage as Liberty's third nickel mine which is slated for pre-production in the last half of 2010.All of the company's nickel ore will be processed at the Redstone nickel concentrator which is located at the Redstone mine site. The mill is uniqely designed to process up to 2000 tonnes of altered komatiite ore per day.The Groves nickel-copper-PGM (Platinum Group Metals) project near Gogama has a known historical resource. A group of 6400 ha of contiguous mining claims has been assembled around the historical deposit. An airborne VTEM survey is complete and a drill program is planned for the summer of 2010. The McAra Lake property near Shining Tree, about 150 km south of Timmins, hosts a system averaging approximately 1.1% cobalt. The property has been minorly explored and will the subject of an intense drill program to prove up tonnage of this highly prospective cobalt resource (cobalt normally occurs in deposits as a 0.02% by-product of nickel ores or as a deposit associated with copper ores with a 0.4% cobalt grade).

Lonmin goes platinum without selling a single CD. Lonmin company is the world's #3 platinum producer (after Anglo Platinum and Impala Platinum). Uses of platinum include catalytic converters for vehicles, and jewelry. Its Lonmin Platinum, or Lonplats, unit mines platinum group metals (PGMs, including platinum, palladium, and rhodium) through two South African companies: Western Platinum and Eastern Platinum. Lonmin company produces about 1.4 million ounces of PGM annually, of which about half is platinum. In addition to its Australian PGM investments, Lonmin has exploration activities in North America, South Africa, and Tanzania.

Exxaro is a South African-based mining group, listed on the JSE Limited. Exxaro has a diverse and world-class commodity portfolio in coal, mineral sands, base metals and industrial minerals, with exposure to iron ore through a 20% interest in Sishen Iron Ore Company (SIOC). As the fourth-largest South African coal producer with capacity of 45 million tonnes per annum and the third-largest global producer of mineral sands, Exxaro is a significant participant in the coal and mineral sands markets and provides a unique listed investment opportunity into these commodities.As one of South Africa’s largest, diversified mining companies, Exxaro is well positioned to grow domestically, and its existing operational interests in Namibia, Australia and China and strong project pipeline provide a base for growth in international markets.

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