Schnitzer Steel Industries, Inc. engages in recycling ferrous and nonferrous scrap metals, and used and salvaged vehicles; and manufacturing finished steel products in the United States and Canada. The company operates through three segments: Metals Recycling Business (MRB), Auto Parts Business (APB), and Steel Manufacturing Business (SMB). The MRB segment involves in the purchase, collection, processing, recycling, sale, and broking of recycled ferrous metals. It processes large pieces of scrap metal into smaller pieces by sorting, shearing, shredding, and torching. This segment’s products include ferrous products, including shredded, sheared, torched and bundled scrap metal, and other purchased scrap metal; and nonferrous scrap metals, including aluminum, copper, stainless steel, nickel, brass, titanium, and high temperature alloys. The APB segment purchases used and salvaged vehicles, and sells used parts from these vehicles through its auto parts stores. As of August 31, 2009, it operated 37 self-service, 16 full-service, and 2 hybrid auto parts stores in the United States and western Canada. The SMB segment engages in the purchase of recycled metal, and processing of the recycled metal and other raw materials into finished steel products. Its product portfolio comprises rebar, coiled rebar, wire rod, merchant bar, and other specialty products. This segment serves steel service centers, construction industry subcontractors, steel fabricators, wire drawers, and farm and wood product suppliers. Schnitzer Steel Industries, Inc. was founded in 1946 and is headquartered in Portland, Oregon.

There is more to Dumont Nickel than its name might suggest. Dumont Nickel holds gold, copper, silver, diamond, and uranium mineral properties in Utah, Nevada, Arizona, and Ontario, Canada. Its focus these days is on the acquisition and development of advanced stage North American projects with a focus on gold. After a period of dormancy during most of the 1990s, Dumont Nickel resumed exploration and mining activities in 1998, focusing on base metals and platinum group metals in the Raglan Area, Quebec, as well as the Attawapiskat diamond property in the James Bay area of Ontario. Dumont Nickel was originally incorporated in 1954.

Superior Graphite's products include graphite powders for battery makers; silicon carbide for the ceramics industry; and graphites used in lubricants, coatings, and rubber compounds. The company's Desulco is a high purity carbon alloy used by ductile iron and high carbon steel producers. Its Slip-Plate products -- a line of dry film lubricants used to coat surfaces -- can be used on home, farm, industrial, and recreational tools and equipment. Superior Graphite has manufacturing plants in the US and in Sweden. Launched in 1917 it is still owned by the founding Carney family.

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.

Steel service center operator Contractors Steel provides products such as bars (cold-rolled and hot-rolled), pipe, plate, sheet, structural members (angles, beams, and channels), and tubing. The company's fabricating and processing services include burning, grinding, plasma cutting, sawing, and shearing. Contractors Steel operates from facilities in Michigan and Ohio. Contractors Steel company maintains its own fleet of delivery trucks. Chairman, president, and CEO Donald Simon founded Contractors Steel in 1960.

Goldrea Resources Corp. (TSX.V: GOR) is a mineral exploration and development company actively engaged in the acquisition, exploration, and development of mineral properties.Goldrea Resourceshas been working on several gold projects in North America and, in January 2004, launched an ambitious play into the Shandong Daye Mine area, near Rushan City, Shandong Province in China, the world's fourth largest producer of gold at that time (behind only South Africa, Australia and the USA). With China's new prominence as the world's top gold producer in 2007 (first time ever), Goldrea's Chinese activities represent a strategic new step for Goldrea Resources.

Wallbridge Mining Company (TSX:WM) is an established Canadian-based company whose mission is to explore for and develop nickel, copper and platinum group element ("PGE") deposits. Its primary focus is on its large portfolio of properties in the under-explored footwall rocks of the prolific Sudbury Mining Camp, Ontario. Wallbridge's Sudbury area properties include joint ventures with Lonmin Plc, Impala Platinum Holdings and Xstrata Nickel as well as with a number of junior mineral exploration companies. In June 2007, global platinum producer Lonmin Plc acquired 10,800,000 common shares of Wallbridge representing approximately 14% of the then issued and outstanding shares.Wallbridge recently spun out a new company, Miocene Metals Limited, which was created to acquire all of Wallbridge's BC porphyry copper-gold-molybdenum (Cu-Au-Mo) properties in a transaction modelled after the successful spin-out of its Minnesota copper-nickel-PGE properties into Duluth Metals Limited (TSX:DM). The BC property portfolio includes Wallbridge's Rogers Creek Cu-Au-Mo property plus six other recently acquired properties in Southwestern BC over a newly recognized belt of Miocene-age intrusive rocks which are highly prospective for Cu-Au-Mo mineralization, The properties range from grassroots stage, with known mineral showings, to properties that are almost drill-ready and have returned economic chip and grab sample values and drill intersections over widths of 10's of metres.

Formerly focused on advertising, China Natural Resources has shifted its business plan from working on minds to working in mines. China Natural Resources operates through its Wuhu Feishang Mining Development unit, a producer of zinc, copper, gold, silver, and iron. Smelter operator Huludao Zinc Industry Co. is Wuhu's primary customer. Chairman and CEO Li Feilie owns a controlling stake in China Natural Resources, which he gained in the company's 2006 reverse acquisition of his Feishang Mining Holdings, after which it sold its iSense subsidiary (provided advertising, promotion, and PR services to clients in China and Hong Kong). China Natural Resources has since acquired a number of other mining projects, all located in China.

Though the story of Alamos Gold is not a long one in terms of time, it is one that is rich in terms of accomplishments. Alamos Gold was formed on February 21, 2003, as a result of the amalgamation of Alamos Minerals and National Gold. Prior to the merger, both Alamos Minerals and National Gold were involved primarily in mineral exploration activities in North America. Alamos Gold owns 100% of the 30,325-hectare Salamandra concessions, which are located within the Mulatos District in the State of Sonora of northwestern Mexico. These concessions contain the Mulatos Mine and a growing portfolio of more than a dozen exploration targets. Since declaring commercial production in 2006, Alamos Gold has continually focused on making operating improvements, resulting in record production of 178,500 ounces of gold in 2010.

Goldsource Mines is actually on the lookout for diamonds. Goldsource Mines company is exploring central Canada for kimberlite, the rock that usually contains diamonds. Goldsource has a property called Big River in central Saskatchewan, near Fort a la Corne, an established kimberlite field. It also has an interest in the Green River, Crossroads, and Border properties of Saskatchewan. Goldsource is still drilling and surverying their properties. No mining activities have begun.

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