Vancouver-based Augusta Resource Corporation is a base metals company focused on advancing the Rosemont copper-moly deposit near Tucson, Arizona. Rosemont currently hosts a large copper/molybdenum reserve that may account for about 10% of US copper output once in production in 2012. The exceptional experience and strength of Augusta’s management team, combined with the developed infrastructure and robust economics of the Rosemont project, will propel Augusta to become a solid mid-tier copper producer within the next three years. Augusta is traded on the Toronto Stock Exchange and the NYSE Alternext under the symbol AZC, and on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange under the symbol A5R.

Aurubis sure hopes you upgrade kitchenware to include some copper pots. The company operates two main business segments. The company's copper production unit produces 1 million tons of copper cathodes (a 99.9%-pure form of copper) from ore, recycling materials, and scrap. Its second business unit, copper processing, then uses this copper to cast wire rod and shapes, copper alloys, and rolled products. The company produces another 1.2 million tons of copper products each year. Customers include companies in the chemical, electronics, automotive, and construction industries. Aurubis bought Belgian copper company Cumerio for about $1 billion in 2008 and changed its name from Norddeutsche Affinerie the next year.

Say "C-U later" Bell Resources and "Give me a ring" to Bell Copper. Formed in 2008 by the acquisition of Grandcru Resources and Rogue River Resources by Bell Resources, Bell Copper Corporation is focused on the development of copper mines in the Americas. The company's primary projects consist of the La Balsa copper mine in Michoacan, Mexico and the Granduc copper mine in British Columbia, Canada (neither of which is yet in production). The company's portfolio of development and exploration projects also includes other properties in British Columbia and Mexico as well as properties in the southwestern US and in Chile.

BHP Billiton has operations worldwide.Two heads -- or headquarters -- are better than one. Aussie minerals and oil company BHP Limited acquired UK miner Billiton plc in 2001. The result is a two-headquartered, dual-listed company that is run as a single entity with the same board of directors and management. The Melbourne side is BHP Billiton Limited, the London side is BHP Billiton Plc, and they collectively are known as BHP Billiton. The company ranks among the world's top producers of iron ore and coal (thermal and metallurgical) and is a major producer of petroleum products such as crude oil and natural gas. Other units produce aluminum, base metals, diamonds, manganese, and stainless steel materials.

Boliden is one of Europe's leading mining and smelting companies. It concentrates on zinc and copper and is among the largest producers of mined zinc in Europe. It also produces lead, precious metals, sulfur, and lead and tin alloys. The company operates smelters in Sweden, Finland, and Norway and has mines in Sweden and Ireland. Boliden ranks among the top zinc and copper producers in Europe, along with the likes of Nyrstar, Xstrata, and Aurubis. In 2010 Boliden acquired Kemira Oyj's sulphuric acid plant and business in Kokkola, Finland.

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