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.

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.

Richmont Mines produces gold from its operations in Northeast Canada and has extensive experience in gold exploration, development and mining. Its strengths are in its ability to develop advanced exploration projects and to operate underground narrow vein gold mines. Richmont Mines Inc. was founded in 1981, and since 1991, has produced more than one million ounces of gold from its operations. Richmont Mines currently has several properties which are located in the provinces of Quebec, Ontario and Newfoundland and Labrador. It is currently producing and exploring at the Beaufor Mine and Island Gold Mine.

Galantas Gold Corporation is a Canadian public company that trades on the TSX-Venture Exchange and the London Stock Exchange AIM market, both under the symbol GAL. The Company's mission is to create shareholder value by bringing Ireland's first gold mine into production and add value to the production by utilizing the rare Irish gold to fashion an exclusive line of high quality 18-carat gold jewellery.Galantas Gold Corporation's assets include a 100 percent interest in the Irish subsidiary Omagh Minerals Limited, which has sole rights to a 653 square-kilometre prospecting license and associated mining leases in County Tyrone, Ireland. The Company also owns 100 percent interest of Galantas Irish Gold Ltd., a jewellery design, manufacturing and marketing business that will utilize part of the gold produced from the Omagh Mine.The management of Galantas Gold Corporation is comprised of seasoned mineral exploration, mining, jewelry and marketing professionals---all sharing a vision of bringing Ireland's first gold mine into production and adding value by creating an exclusive line of certified, 18-carat Irish Gold jewellery.

Centerra is a growth-oriented Canadian-based gold mining and exploration company engaged in the acquisition, exploration, development and operation of gold properties in Central Asia, the former Soviet Union and other emerging markets worldwide. Our objective is to build shareholder value and to establish annual gold production of 1.5 million ounces by maximizing the potential of our current properties and leveraging our financial strength and experience to acquire new long-life, low-cost projects.The two gold mines operated by Centerra produced over 675,592 ounces of gold in 2009 at a total cash cost of $459 per ounce. This ranks Centerra as a leading North American gold producer and the largest Western-based gold producer in Central Asia. Centerra's shares trade on the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX) under the symbol CG. Centerra is based in Toronto, Canada. Centerra expects to produce 640,000 - 700,000 ounces of gold in 2010 at an estimated total cash cost of $460 - $505 per ounce.

Diavik Diamond Mines Inc.company has a majority stake (60%) in the Diavik Diamond Mine north of Great Slave lake in the Northwest Territories of Canada; partner Harry Winston Diamond (formerly called Aber Diamond) owns the remaining portion. Production began at the mine in 2003. With an estimated life cycle of 15-20 years, the Diavik mine will peak at a production rate of about 10 million carats annually. The two companies share in the diamonds the mine produces in equal ratio to their ownership stakes. DDMI is a subsidiary of Rio Tinto.

hyssen and Krupp have practically been synonyms for "steel" in Germany. ThyssenKrupp Steel Europe is the holding company for the European steel operations of global industrial titan ThyssenKrupp AG. It operates a steel mill in Germany, steel service centers throughout Europe, and an automotive unit. The processing unit produces tinplate materials and electrical steel products. ThyssenKrupp's steel operations produce more than 15 million tons annually worldwide, placing it among the largest in the world along with the likes of Arcelor Mittal, Nippon Steel, and Posco. ThyssenKrupp Stainless Steel is a separate unit within the parent company.

Kokomo Enterprises Inc., formerly known as Zab Resources Inc., was incorporated on August 24, 1984 in British Columbia, Canada. On April 16, 2009, Kokomo Enterprises Company changed its name from ZAB Resources Inc. to Kokomo Enterprises Inc. It is a junior mineral exploration company with interests in the Extra High Property located in the Province of British Columbia and, the Hope Creek Property also located in the Province of British Columbia. The main business of the Company is the acquisition, exploration and, if warranted, the development of natural resource properties. The Company's ability to pursue its stated primary business and to meet its obligations as they come due is dependent upon the ability of management to obtain the necessary financings either through private placements or by means of public offerings of the Company's securities or through the exercise of incentive stock options or warrants or through debt financings or through the sale of its assets. The Company competes with many companies possessing much greater financial resources and technical facilities than it. The Company's proposed mineral exploration programs, are subject to extensive federal, provincial and local laws and regulations governing such exploration, development and operation of mining activities as well as the protection of the environment, including laws and regulations relating to obtaining permits to mine, protection of air and water quality, hazardous waste management, mine reclamation and the protection of endangered or threatened species.

Gitennes has been traded publicly in Canada since 1993. Gitennes listed on The Toronto Stock Exchange January 22, 1998 and moved to the TSX Venture Exchange October 19, 2009.Gitennes will undertake technically sound, early-stage exploration in "greenfield" environments right through to late-stage resource definition drilling and pre-feasibility work on select properties. Gitennes intends to maintain this course of finding and exploring promising mineral deposits. In the future, when results indicate that a property may become a potential producer that yields a high rate-of-return at a relatively low level of capital investment, Gitennes may then pursue the "development option".A Canadian corporation, based in Vancouver, British Columbia, ownership of Gitennes is broad-based, through shares listed on The TSX Venture Stock Exchange.

Tex-Tube is a leading manufacturer of high-quality steel pipe. Serving the North American continent, the company produces tubular steel products that meet both API and ASTM standards.Tex-Tube is a member of the Villacero Group or Grupo Villacero, based in Monterrey, Mexico. Grupo Villacero is a global steel conglomerate involved in the production, transformation and commercialization of steel products worldwide.Tex-Tube is located near the Port of Houston on the Gulf of Mexico, strategically located to receive raw materials by barge or ship and distribute finished pipe via sea, rail or truck.

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