United Stars has earned its stripes by working with metal. Through its subsidiaries, the company operates in three main business areas. United Industries and United Stainless together manufacture welded stainless steel tubing. Electric Materials fabricates copper components for use in electrical equipment. United Gear & Assembly manufactures gears and shafts from carbon and alloy steel. The subsidiaries operate locations throughout the Midwest as well as in Tennessee.

Sojitz Corporation is trading in all kinds of places. The company's 500 subsidiaries trade in a wide array of businesses, ranging from steel and automobile parts to apparel, making it one of the largest trading houses in Japan. Sojitz's other major businesses include aerospace, foods, oil and gas, chemicals and plastics, retail property development, and construction materials. The rest of Asia and North America (through its Sojitz Corporation of America unit) are major contributors to its overseas trading operations. Sojitz was formed by the 2003 merger of two Japanese trading powerhouses, Nissho Iwai and Nichimen Corporation.

Tertiary Minerals plc ("the Company") is a UK based public mineral exploration and development company. Its shares trade on the Alternative Investment Market of the London Stock Exchange ("AIM") and on PLUS Markets under the trading symbol "TYM".The Company aims to provide capital growth for shareholders through the cost effective exploration and development of mineral deposits. The Company’s objective is to become a major European supplier of fluorspar, an essential raw material for the fluorine chemicals business. In 2008 Tertiary Minerals Company acquired the Storuman fluorspar project in Sweden and, in July 2010, after a programme of drilling and metallurgical testwork completed a positive scoping study for the development of the project.Also in July 2010 Tertiary Minerals Company acquired rights to explore the Lassedalen fluorspar project in Norway which it intends to evaluate as a second potential fluorspar mining operation.Tertiary Minerals Company portfolio also includes exploration targets for gold, iron and tantalum in the politically stable Nordic countries and, subject to a resolution of licence issues, the world's largest deposit of tantalum-niobium (and rare-earths) in Saudi Arabia where a development project is being evaluated in conjunction with Saudi joint venture partners. The Company is currently awaiting the re-issue of an exploration license over Ghurayyah before continuing further work on this project.he Directors’ policy is to progress its "flagship" fluorspar projects towards production and to maintain a portfolio of exploration projects such that Tertiary Minerals Company has, as far as is possible, continuing exposure to the opportunity for the discovery of commercial ore-bodies.The Company also works through joint venture or farm-in agreements with other mineral companies on its projects where this would allow it to accelerate exploration and/or development of a project beyond the financial resources available to it, or in order to explore further its projects at minimal cost.In 2005 the Company sponsored the formation and AIM admission of Sunrise Resources plc and remains a major shareholder in that company.

Codelco is a different kind of high-energy copper top. State-owned Corporacion Nacional del Cobre de Chile (Codelco) is the world's top producer of copper (ahead of Freeport-McMoran Copper & Gold), controlling some 20% of the world's known copper reserves and mining around 1.5 million tons of copper annually. Among the companies Codelco sells to are units of such diverse multinational giants as LG (South Korea), Outokumpu (Finland), Southwire (the US), and Wieland Werke (Germany). It is also a major producer of molybdenum (used for ferroalloys). Codelco's joint development partners on projects include the Canadian gold producer Barrick and the Mexican miner Industrias Penoles.

Golden Star is a mid-tier gold mining company over a quarter-century in age and total historical production of over two million ounces of gold. Golden Star Resources, Ltd. has two operating mines situated along the prolific Ashanti Gold Belt in Ghana, West Africa. Production in 2009 totaled 409,902 ounces of gold from these two mines. Our growth strategy is the result of our exploration and expansion activities at both Bogoso/Prestea and Wassa/HBB. Our Bogoso sulfide and oxide processing plants are working in tandem to enable us to achieve our 2010 operating guidance. The CIL plant at Wassa is processing ore from the Wassa pits in addition to high grade ore from the HBB satellite mines. In addition to operational growth, the Company has consistently grown through exploration and corporate development activities. Lastly, Golden Star has a long-term commitment to sustainability with particular emphasis on health, education and the environment.

JSW Group is one of the fastest growing business conglomerates with a strong presence in the core economic sector. This Sajjan Jindal led enterprise has grown from a steel rolling mill in 1982 to a multi business conglomerate worth US $ 5 billion within a short span of time.As part of the US $ 10 billion O. P. Jindal Group, JSW Group has diversified interests in Steel, Energy, Minerals and Mining, Aluminium, Infrastructure and Logistics, Cement and Information Technology.

Empire Resources, Inc. engages in the purchase, sale, and distribution of semi-finished aluminum and steel products in the United States, Canada, Europe, Australia, and New Zealand. Its semi-finished aluminum products include aluminum sheet, plate and foil, rod, bar and wire, and extruded and cast products. The company serves various industries, such as distribution, transportation, automobile, housing, appliances, and packaging. Empire Resources, Inc. sells its products through its own marketing and sales personnel, as well as through independent sales agents. The company was founded in 1990 and is headquartered in Fort Lee, New Jersey.

Uranerz Energy Corporation is a pure-play uranium company listed on the NYSE Amex Exchange (Symbol URZ), Toronto Stock Exchange (Symbol URZ), and Frankfurt Stock Exchange (Symbol U9E).Uranerz Energy Corporation is engaged in the acquisition, exploration and development of properties in the uranium sector. The Company's goal is to become a producer of uranium which will be utilized as fuel in the world's nuclear power plants.Uranerz Energy Corporation has an experienced team of mining personnel, many of whom are former officers, senior management and employees of the original Uranerz Exploration and Mining Limited and related companies (the "Uranerz Group"). The Uranerz Group was the third-largest primary uranium producer in the world when it was acquired in 1998 by Cameco, the world's largest primary uranium producer at that time. There are nine persons with Uranerz Energy Corporation that are from the original "Uranerz Group" of companies.Uranerz Energy Corporation has expertise in the in-situ recovery ("ISR") mining method. Our management team has direct experience in licensing, designing, constructing and/or operating seven separate in-situ recovery uranium mines located in Wyoming, Texas, Nebraska, and Kazakhstan.The Company's Powder River Basin, Wyoming uranium properties are advanced, and the Company has submitted (in December 2007) license and permit applications to the Federal and State regulatory agencies for the development of two of these projects into commercial ISR uranium mines. Uranerz has over 25 uranium projects in various stages of activity (development, exploration) in the Powder River Basin.Uranerz has signed long-term contracts for the sale of uranium to two of the United States' largest nuclear operators, including Exelon (which operates the largest nuclear fleet in U.S. and the third largest in the world).ISR mining comprised 36% of global uranium production in 2009 according to the World Nuclear Association. Wyoming ISR advantages include low capital costs, low operating costs, and low environmental impact. Wyoming is the largest uranium producer in the United States with a long ISR history and has the largest known uranium resource base in the USA. Uranerz management has a record of licensing and operating commercial ISR projects.

Ormet Corporation's operations run the gamut of aluminum production. In addition to refining alumina, the company, through its Primary Aluminum unit, manufactures aluminum ingot, billet (pressed bars), sheet, foil, and other products for the fabrication, extrusion, and conversion markets. The company maintains facilities in Louisiana, Ohio, and Washington. In 2010 Ormet agreed to buy a carbon anode facility in Mead, Washington. The facility will provide raw materials for the company's Hannibal, Ohio operations. Ormet was founded in 1954 as a part of Olin Corporation.

In 1947, Steel Warehouse began in a small rented building with a used shear, rented lift truck, lots of manual labor and a plan to liquidate steel from a toy building venture. Shortly thereafter, other opportunities seized by company founder and president Nate Lerman set Steel Warehouse on a path of growth, innovation and industry leadership.Since then, growth of Steel Warehouse company has been steady, if not at times explosive. At first, there was just a handful of employees. Today, there are over 600 members of the Steel Warehouse family.Originally, we serviced customers within a small radius of South Bend. Now, we ship material throughout most of the country from South Bend - the site of our earliest beginnings - and our network branch facilities.

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