U.S. Steel Canada's output is creating the steely determination that has taken the company out of bankruptcy. U.S. Steel Canada company produces hot- and cold-rolled steel sheets, coated sheet steel, and performs coating, plating, and finishing services. It operates two steel facilities in Ontario and also produces coke, which is used in the steel production process. Production capacity at the two facilities totals about 5 million tons annually. Customers include companies in the automotive, building, and steel service center industries. It is the Canadian operations of U.S. Steel.

Cookson Electronics is a leading materials science company that provides high performance materials, chemistry and technology solutions to the electronics and surface finishing industries worldwide. Cookson Electronics delivers superior value by providing truly differentiated products, services and support through its Alpha, Enthone and Cookson Electronics - Semiconductor Products businesses. From printed circuit board fabrication and assembly products, to microelectronics packaging materials and semiconductor fabrication processes, to high performance functional and decorative coatings, we look forward to serving you worldwide.

Since its initial public offering in March 2002, Xstrata has grown rapidly to become one of the largest diversified mining companies in the world, with top five industry positions in copper, export thermal coal, export coking coal, ferrochrome, zinc and nickel. In addition, the Group has a growing platinum business, recycling facilities, additional exposures to gold, cobalt, lead, silver and vanadium and a suite of mining and metals-related technologies, many of which are industry leaders. Our operations and projects span 19 countries and we have corporate offices in a further six countries. Our strategy will continue to rest on delivery against each of these three pillars, but over time, the emphasis has shifted. Initially, Xstrata’s strategy was, of necessity, dominated by acquisitive growth, to build a major diversified mining group with the scale and diversity to compete effectively with the leading companies in the industry. Following each acquisition, Xstrata’s operational teams have fundamentally transformed the acquired operations to extract synergies with existing operations and enhance their competitiveness, improve safety, environmental and social performance to industry-leading standards, extend the reserve and resource base and expected life of the operations and develop expansion or associated growth options.

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.

Keystone is a vertically integrated manufacturer of fabricated wire products, wire mesh, coiled rebar, industrial wire, steel bars, wire rod and billets. A leading domestic manufacturer, Keystone operates through three business segments: Keystone Steel & Wire, Engineered Wire Products, Inc., and Keystone-Calumet, Inc.Keystone’s common stock is traded on the OTC Bulletin Board under the symbol “KYCN.” See Keystone’s latest Annual Report on Form 10-K, Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q and Proxy Statement under the SEC filings section of this website for a recent description of Keystone’s operations and ownership structure.

Pacific Booker Minerals Inc. (PBM) owns the Morrison property located in Central British Columbia, 35 km north of the Village of Granisle. PBM is in the advanced stage of development of the Morrison porphyry copper/gold/molybdenum deposit. PBM has completed a Feasibility Study and 43-101 compliant Technical Report and is proposing an open-pit mining and milling operation for the production of copper/gold/molybdenum concentrate from the Morrison deposit. It is located within 29 km of two former producing copper mines, Bell and Granisle.The Feasibility Study was completed by Wardrop Engineering Ltd., a Tetra Tech Company, with technical support of a team of other consultants. The study describes the scope, design features and financial viability of a conventional open pit mine with a 30,000 tonnes per day mill.PBM has completed an Environmental Assessment and submitted an Application for an Environmental Assessment Certificate to the BC Environmental Assessment Office.The Environmental Assessment Certificate is required to apply for the various Licenses and Permits required for the construction, operation and maintenance, decommissioning, and reclamation of the proposed 30,000 tonnes/day open-pit mine over a proposed 21 year period.PBM also submitted a number of permit applications for concurrent review with the Environmental Assessment Certificate Application, including: (1) the Mining Lease application, which grants mineral production rights from surveyed mineral claims; (2) two Licenses of Occupation, which grant surface rights for the use of Crown Land along the proposed Transmission Line and for an area in the proposed Tailings Storage Facility; and (3) various Forestry permits and licenses, which grant the right to cut timber on the mine site and along the proposed Transmission Line route, and grant permission to use forestry roads for mine access.

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.

Baosteel Group Corporation (hereinafter as Baosteel) is the most competitive steel complex in China at present. In 2008, Baosteel registered a sales revenue of RMB 246.839 billion yuan, a total profit of RMB 23.813 billion yuan, a total assets of RMB 352.497 billion yuan and a net assets of RMB 219.435 billion yuan; the total employees of Baosteel are 108914 people; Baosteel has been enrolled in Global 500 for 6 years consecutively and ranked 220th this year.On December 23, 1978, the construction of Baosteel started in Shanghai. In November 1998, Baosteel, Shanghai Metallurgical Holding Group and Meishan Iron & Steel Co., Ltd. consolidated. In 2006 Baosteel restructured Xinjiang Bayi Iron & Steel Co., Ltd. In 2008 Baosteel restructured Guangzhou Iron & Steel Enterprises Group and Shaoguan Iron & Steel Group to set up Guangdong Iron & Steel Group Corporation to eliminate the outdated capacity and prepare the construction of Zhanjiang Iron & Steel Manufacture Base.In recent years, centering on iron & steel supply chain, technological chain and resource utilization chain, Baosteel increased the consolidation of internal and external resources to enhance competitiveness and raise industrial status, as a result of which the business structure including main steel business and relatively diversified sectors has preliminarily taken shape.The main steel business of Baosteel focuses on the production of hi-tech and high value-added premium steel, with an annual production capacity around 30 million tons. Baosteel's products sell well at home and abroad. Its steel industry covers three major categories: carbon steel, stainless steel and specially-alloyed steel, which are widely applied in the sectors of automobile, home appliance, petrochemical, machinery manufacture, energy & transportation, building & decoration, metal products, aviation and aerospace, nuclear power and electronic instruments, etc. While maintaining its dominance in domestic flat product market, Baosteel's products are also exported to over 40 countries and regions including Japan, South Korea, Europe and America.Baosteel underlines environmental protection, implements clean production, develops circular economy and pursues sustainable development. It is the first enterprise to pass ISO-14001 environmental certification in Chinese metallurgical sector and also the first enterprise to get the title of "National environment-friendly enterprise" in Chinese metallurgical sector and Shanghai Municipality.

Dorato Resources Inc. ("Dorato") is a mineral exploration company focused on the highly prospective Cordillera del Condor Gold District in northern Peru and adjacent to the border with Ecuador -- one of the most important gold-bearing districts in the region since pre-Incan times. Modern exploration on the Ecuadorian side of the border has successfully delineated a number of world-class gold and copper deposits including Kinross Gold's Fruta del Norte gold deposit with inferred resources of 13.6 million contained ounces of gold averaging 7.23 g/t gold. The Peruvian portion of the Cordillera, while sharing key geological features and stratigraphy, has remained almost entirely unexplored...until now. Dorato, through a series of option agreements, has the right to wholly acquire an extensive land package of approximately 1,050 square kilometres -- providing the Company a highly strategic position in this emergent gold district. Dorato is well funded and possesses experienced management with a proven track record.

Craig Yarde founded Yarde Metals Inc. in 1976 when he established a small office in the basement of his home in Bristol, CT and began brokering metal over the phone with $1000 from the sale of his motorcycle! The phones seldom rang and were usually answered by his wife or his three year old daughter. Metal orders were picked up and delivered by family members in his station wagon. Craig partnered with his brother, Bruce Yarde, the following year and moved into a small rented factory on South Street in Bristol, CT. In 1986, Yarde Metals moved to an 85,000 square foot facility to accommodate the growing product line, services and sales. The company quickly outgrew this space and moved to a completely renovated state of the art 500,000 square foot facility in Southington, CT in June of 2003. Our corporate headquarters is more like a museum than a distribution warehouse and its unique style supports Craig's out-of-the-box business philosophy that has facilitated his success. Yarde Metals now has nine service centers in addition to its corporate headquarters. They are located in: Albany, New York; Happauge, New York; Syracuse, New York; Pelham, New Hampshire; High Point, North Carolina; Streetsboro, Ohio; Limerick, Pennsylvania; Mendon, Massachusetts;. Yarde Metals has expanded internationally throughout Europe and Asia and processes the majority of international business through our Happauge, New York facility as well as our corporate headquarters. We have representatives in Korea and China to help support our international sales business.

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