From pig iron to animal feed, Balli Group trades a little bit of everything. Through subsidiaries Balli Steel and Balli Trading, the group trades and distributes steel as well as aluminum, chemicals, office products, agricultural goods, and other commodities. Flat-rolled steel makes up about half of total steel sales. Chemicals and aluminum account for the majority of the company's non-steel trading business. Established in 1991, the trading house has grown through the acquisitions such as Klockner Steel Trade (2000), Comvex (2002), and RXI (2003). Comvex is a bulk handling terminal in the Black Sea. Balli also operates alumina refineries and aluminum rolling mills.

Lachlan Star Limited is an emerging minerals exploration and development company headquartered in Perth, Western Australia. The company is focused on acquiring and developing assets within the gold, copper and bulk commodities sectors within Australia and overseas. The company has a board of directors and management team with an impressive track record of advancing resource projects through to production.Lachlan Star’s current projects include the Bushranger copper and gold project in NSW and Princhester magnesite deposit in QLD. It is planned to focus exploration activities on the Bushranger Project whilst other corporate opportunities are pursued.

Liquidmetal® Technologies, a publicly traded company (OTC:LQMT), is a leading force in the research, development and commercialization of amorphous metals. Our revolutionary class of patented alloys and coatings form the basis of high performance material utilized in a range of military, consumer and industrial products manufactured by Liquidmetal Technologies.Discovered by researchers at California Institute of Technology, the home of 27 Nobel Prize winners, and with its unique atomic structure providing applications that were not possible before, Liquidmetal® alloys and composites present new opportunities for the current and future designs of metallic based products. Our revolutionary class of patented alloys and coatings will change the performance and cost paradigms for materials science.As Liquidmetal Technologies controls the intellectual property rights with more than 20 patents on the composition, processing and usage of technology, our high performance material and products are revolutionizing the materials world.

Cream Minerals Ltd. (the "Company" or "Cream") is a mineral exploration company with properties in Canada, Mexico and Sierra Leone, Africa. The Company is working to enhance shareholder value through the acquisition of gold, silver and base metal properties which have the potential to be developed into economic ore bodies. The Company holds six properties, including the Nuevo Milenio Silver Gold project in Nayarit State, Mexico and the recently acquired Blueberry Gold Project in Manitoba, Canada.Creams 100% owned Nuevo Milenio property is a 2560 Ha (Hectare) property hosting a low sulphidation epithermal gold and silver deposit contained within a collapsed caldera. The property has a compliant NI 43-101 Inferred Mineral Resource of 54.6 million ounces silver equivalent contained within 5.09 million tonnes. The average grade is 251 ounces per ton, the cutoff grade is 180 ounces per ton and the vein widths run from 2 metres to 5.1 metres. The resource calculation is based on a ratio of 50:1. While the resource is contained within 600 Ha, there are gold and silver showings over a 5 km length on the property trending from the South East to the North West. Outside of the 600Ha resource area the property has had limited exploration but is highly prospective.

Commerce Group Corp. is one of the only precious metals company that has produced gold and silver in the past twenty or more years in the Republic of El Salvador, Central America. Starting in 1968, for periods during the 1970's and 1980's Commerce was operative in the exploration, exploitation, development, and production of precious metals in El Salvador. It continues to be operative in the exploration of precious metals in El Salvador while it seeks funding for exploitation, development, and production. Commerce’s objectives are to obtain the permission of the Government of El Salvador to continue the exploitation of mineralized material at SSGM and to obtain a sufficient amount of funds to operate and expand its San Cristobal Mill and Plant and to commence an open-pit, heap-leach operation at its SSGM to produce gold at a profit. It further plans to broaden its exploration targets as the opportunity to discover more gold and silver is evident. Commerce simultaneously continues to seek a compatible acquisition, merger, other business arrangement, or an endeavor in which synergism will prevail. This combination should continue to enhance the value of Commerce’s common shares.

Rex Diamond Mining explores and develops diamond properties in Africa. In Africa Rex Diamond company primarily has operations in Sierra Leone. It sold its exploration assets in South Africa to African Gem Resources (Afgem) in 2005 and currently is in a legal dispute with that company about royalty payments. Rex Diamond's main asset now is its investment in Afgem, though its REXdiamonds subsidiary markets and sells polished diamonds and jewelry.

Troxel manufactures steel tubing and fabricates tubular products. Those products are used by the automotive and agricultural industries as well as in home appliances, HVAC equipment, and industrial transformers. Troxel manufactures products in profiles including rounds, squares, ovals, and rectangles. It also provides secondary cutting, fabrication (bending, swaging, flattening, etc.), and powder coating services. It no longer has any connection to its former equestrian and cycling helmet subsidiary, still called Troxel LLC, which it sold in 1997. The Troxel Company was founded in 1898.

Great Basin Gold Limited, through its subsidiaries, engages in the acquisition, exploration, development, and trial mining of precious metal deposits. The company primarily focuses on gold and silver properties. Its projects include the Hollister gold project in Nevada and the Burnstone gold project in South Africa. Great Basin Gold is a mining company engaged in the development and exploration of Gold properties. The company is currently in late stage development at two projects in the world’s two most well known gold producing regions, with a substantial resource base of 13 million ounces in the measured and indicated category. The Hollister project is located on the Carlin Trend in Nevada, USA and the Burnstone project.

PDM entered the steel service center industry in California with its 1954 acquisition of the Proctor-James Steel Company in San Jose. In 1955 Kyle and Company, with facilities at Fresno, Stockton and Sacramento was added. With four service centers, PDM was able to provide outstanding service throughout central and northern California.In 1962, new facilities were constructed at Fresno, California giving improved service to customers in the central California area. Recognizing the great potential for its products and services, the Company established a fifth service center in the Reno/Sparks area of Nevada in 1963. In 1968, the new service center facilities at Fresno and Sacramento and the existing facilities at Santa Clara and Sparks were greatly augmented by the completion of the semi-automated center at Stockton.The latest in material handling fixtures and equipment were used in the Stockton facility. Steel is stacked 24' in the air on specially constructed racks. Stacker Cranes are used to handle the material in the racks. The Stacker Cranes move the material from the order storage areas to delivery trucks.To provide the greatest possible service and selection for our customers, the "Common Inventory Concept" was established. This gave all customers access to the total company inventory at all locations.Under the Common Inventory Concept, Stockton is the geographical hub of the Service Wheel with spokes running north to Sacramento, east to Reno and Spanish Fork, south to Fresno, and west to Santa Clara. The "Interplant Transfer System" moves this Common Inventory from one location to another, allowing short lead-time delivery of most items regardless of the inventory source. The efficiency and success of this system has proven to be an important benefit to our customers.A new service center was established in Spanish Fork, Utah, south of Salt Lake City, in 1977. As customer demands for "pre-production processing" grew, new processing equipment was installed at all facilities. Shears, automatic saws, and shape burning equipment that can virtually burn in steel anything that can be drawn in two dimensions, are available at each center. Plasma cutting equipment allows shapes to be cut in material which is too thin to be cut with conventional flame cutting equipment. Computer aided design and CNC have made possible the burning of shapes too large to fit on paper and too complex to be easily laid out on a drafting table, while at the same time allowing for the efficient "nesting" of burned parts for reduced scrap loss.

From the early days in 1965 to the present, Eastern Alloys has developed and implemented a series of programs, or tools, to support the marketplace. The business was founded upon the notion that customer success would provide the energy and impetus to drive the company's growth. By any measure that business model has succeeded. Today, Eastern Alloys operates two discrete manufacturing and recycling facilities: the flagship plant in Maybrook, NY, and Eastern Alloys of Kentucky, LLC, in Henderson, KY. Dedicated in April 2000, the Kentucky plant is the newest, most technologically advanced zinc alloy complex ever constructed.Today, businesses in all industries are faced with making hard decisions that will impact future performance, in some case survivability. Everything is in play, everything. Some part of the solution is simple, at least from a philosophical perspective. Different results are the reciprocal of different actions, or inputs. To continue the same practices only assures the same results. So then, success is about making choices.For every manufacturer of zinc alloy die castings, large or small, zinc alloy is typically one of the largest, if not the single largest cost component when measured as a percent of cost of goods sold. So it follows that selecting a supplier is serious business, especially in today's environment. In addition to raw materials, a zinc alloy supplier must be able to deliver the necessary services, information, and support that contribute materially towards its customers' success. To just ship a truck filled with raw material and mail an invoice falls short of the mark. Suppliers of die castings are being pressed to find ways to remove or reduce cost. In this context suppliers must become strategic trading partners. Selecting a supplier of zinc alloy is at least as serious as choosing a bank, business consultant, die casting machine builder, or tool maker, perhaps more so.For 37 years, Eastern Alloys has sought to develop innovative solutions to benefit the North American zinc die casting industry. Early programs include ZA Alloy development, including providing industry-wide access to ZA trademark rights. Other programs include what was originally known as the Australian Die Casting Technology Transfer program continuing today as Low Mass Technology. Eastern took the lead in market development supporting the IZA's Marketing Conference series for manufacturers of zinc die castings. Eastern was a founding member of Interzinc, a zinc-specific marketing consortium. Importantly, under the leadership of Richard J. Bauer, Eastern's founder and Chairman, the company rallied the Washington Conference for Zinc, not once but twice, to thwart an attempt to include zinc in Super Fund legislation.More recently, Eastern Alloys has expanded its customer-centric improvement engineering program developing user-friendly PQ2 EA software. At the 21st NADCA Congress & Exposition the company introduced ZinCalc, a program designed to assist die casters improve 1st pass material efficiency. Plus, the improvement engineering group continues working closely with customers and end-users to improve in-plant performance and develop new applications for zinc alloys. Because the business of buying and selling zinc alloys is not without risk, Eastern has developed a formal Price Risk Management facility available to every customer. To that end Eastern was elected a member of the London Metal Exchange earlier in the year. Each business day the company is connected to the world's metals and financial centers via real-time satellite down link. Add to that the company's comprehensive Market Development, Strategic Market Planning, and Supply Chain Management programs, Eastern Alloys delivers expansive resources to drive customer growth.

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