NAP is a Canadian diversified precious metals company focused on growing its production of palladium and gold in mining-friendly jurisdictions. As an established producer, the Company operates its two 100%-owned mines in Canada and has a robust pipeline of growth projects near its mine sites.Lac des Iles, the Company's flagship mine, is one of North America's two primary palladium producers. Located approximately 85 kilometres northwest of Thunder Bay, Ontario, Lac des Iles started producing palladium in 1993. NAP also owns and operates the Sleeping Giant gold mine located in the prolific Abitibi region of Quebec. The Company has a strong portfolio of development and exploration assets near the Lac des Iles and Sleeping Giant mines, and is pursuing an aggressive exploration program aimed at increasing its reserves and resources. NAP trades on the TSX under the symbol PDL and on the NYSE Amex under the symbol PAL. The Company’s common shares are included in the S&P/TSX Global Mining Index.

SEMAFO is a Canadian-based mining company with gold production and exploration activities in West Africa. The Company currently operates three gold mines: the Mana Mine in Burkina Faso, the Samira Hill Mine in Niger and the Kiniero Mine in Guinea. SEMAFO is committed to evolve in a conscientious manner to become a major player in its geographical area of interest. SEMAFO's strategic focus is to maximize shareholder value by effectively managing its existing assets as well as pursuing organic and strategic growth opportunities in West Africa.

Nippon Light Metal Company (NLM) is heavily into aluminum. The company's operations span the process from turning bauxite ore into alumina to smelting aluminum to fabricating finished aluminum products. It makes ingot, sheets, and extrusions; chemicals (aluminum hydroxide, caustic soda, fluorine); fabricated products; and building materials. Those last two units -- fabricated products (food containers, fuel tanks, ladders) and building materials (scaffolds, fences and railings, soundproof walls) -- contribute about two-thirds of sales. NLM has a joint venture with Mitsubishi to produce aluminum sheet for automotive applications.

Namasco has put the pedal to the metal. Namasco company, a subsidiary of the German distributor Klockner, distributes metals throughout the US. Namasco distributes general steel line products that include bar, grating and flooring, pipe, plate, and structural tube. The flat rolled division distributes aluminum and a variety of steel products, available coated, cold- and hot-rolled, prepainted and preplated. Namasco also provides processing services like drilling, punching, plasma tee splitting, and plate rolling. It operates from about 25 processing and distribution locations primarily in the eastern half of the US.

China Minmetals Corporation, founded in 1950, is a large sized group dealing worldwide in development, production, trading and operation for metals and minerals. It is also engaged in finance, real estate and logistics. In 1999, China Minmetals was listed among the 39 "key enterprises" with a great bearing on national security and economic lifeline under the direct jurisdiction of the Central Government. In 2007, Minmetals was ranked Class A when the SASAC evaluated the performance of state-owned enterprises under the jurisdiction of the Central Government. In 2008, the Group was ranked No. 331 among the Fortune Global 500. In 2009, China Minmetals achieved a total business volume of US$26.8 billion dollar with operating revenue of RMB 173 billion yuan by responded the international financial crisis actively. The products and raw materials the Group handles have been widely used in different areas of national economic construction and people's livelihood. Minmetals has made remarkable contributions to the national economic development and modernization program. In recent years, has implemented a new development strategy to intensify operations in ferrous metals, non-ferrous metals, finance, real estate and logistics. To forge an industrial chain, Minmetals has promoted its strategic transformation for securing more resources. The Group has been transformed from a traditional state-owned enterprise with strong characteristics of the planned economy in the past to a modern, competitive and independent enterprise under the socialist market economy. And it has changed from a pure import and export company into a global integrated enterprise backed up with resources from both downstream and upstream industries. The Group has also changed from a company purely involved in operations of products into a group engaged in the operation of both products and assets and capital. As one of the Fortune 500 global companies, China Minmetals has strengthened strategic cooperation with both large domestic and overseas companies to seek mutual development. Minmetals plays a major role in promoting exchanges and cooperation between enterprises from China and other countries as the Group holds the post of chairman representing China in the Sino-Brazil Business Council and Sino-Chile Business Council. "To value the limited resources and pursue boundless development," the Group is committed to the strategy of "going out" and develops mineral resources overseas to satisfy the ever increasing demand for resources in the development of the national economy.

Major Drilling Group International Inc. is one of the world's largest drilling service companies serving the mining industry. To support its customers' varied drilling requirements, Major Drilling maintains field operations and offices in Canada, the United States, South and Central America, Asia, Africa and Australia. Major Drilling provides all types of drilling services including surface and underground coring, directional, reverse circulation, RAB, geotechnical, and environmental drilling. Major Drilling's stock trades on The Toronto Stock Exchange under the symbol "MDI".

Hunan Valin Iron & Steel Group Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as Valin Group) is the end of 1997 three major iron and steel by the HunanEnterprise - Xiangtan Steel, Lianyuan Steel, Hengyang Steel Tube joint formation of large enterprise groups. Group under the jurisdiction of Xiangtan Iron and Steel Group Co., Ltd., Lianyuan Iron and Steel Group Co., Ltd., Hunan Hengyang Steel Tube (Group) Co., Ltd. and three other wholly-owned subsidiary of Hunan Valin Iron & Steel Co., Ltd. and other information on more than ten Valin be directly or indirectly owned subsidiary, the existing 4.5 million in staff and workers, of which 1.2 million people in various professional and technical personnel.In the ten years of development, Valin Group from reality, take a system full of vigor and vitality of innovation, to capital assets as a link, build large groups operating system. Group to implement the dual layered business model, the parent company to establish a scientific and efficient management system; rely on capital markets, and steadily promote business assets, the incremental Zhengti listed; the implementation of the International Development Strategy, 2005 share transfer of the way through the world steel giant Mittal Steel for strategic cooperation, in 2009 in the context of the financial crisis has successfully acquired FMG17.34% stake in Australia's efforts to integrate into the global steel industry and the world economic cycle. Group by deepening the reform, innovation management, strengthen capital operation, and promote structural optimization and industrial upgrading, to achieve a sustained and coordinated by leaps and bounds. In 2009, the year finished steel 11.81 million tons, 10.64 million tons of iron, steel 11.15 million tons, sales income of 500 billion yuan and profits 2.7 billion. Total assets, sales revenue, total profit and tax of three main economic indicators for many years into the national 100 key industrial enterprises.Valin Group will take the content based on expanded reproduction, intensive management development path, through the implementation of differentiation strategy, continue to seek industry potential, focusing on strategic adjustment of product structure, in order to digest Security - meter Company technical core, to high value-added, high-tech, alternative and terminal products imported into, concentrate on building "The Four projects, a base, nine-quality products"; vigorously promote the construction of Valin consortium to accelerate the fuel to build a large logistics and the original base Industrial Development for the Group; steady implementation of the low-cost expansion strategy, expanding the scale of strength of the Group, built up a strong international competitiveness of the modern iron and steel enterprises, and strive to scale Valin Group's steel production reached 30 million tons more sales of more than 100 billion yuan . Into the world top 500 enterprises, to accelerate the process of industrialization in Hunan Province, to promote China's iron and steel from iron and steel power to a power shift continued to make new contributions.

acquet Metals is one of the world's largest distributors of stainless steel and nickel. The French company distributes its metal products to more than 7,500 industrial customers in 60 countries and operates out of about 40 subsidiary and franchise locations throughout the world. It has more than 20 distribution centers, with four located in the US. Jacquet's customers come from a few niche markets including companies in the agricultural, chemistry, energy, environmental, mechanical construction, paper manufacturing, and water treatment industries. Jacquet acquired full ownership of IMS International Metal Service in 2010.

Allegheny Technologies Incorporated produces and sells specialty metals worldwide. Allegheny Technologies High Performance Metals segment offers a range of high performance alloys, including nickel-and cobalt-based alloys and superalloys; titanium and titanium-based alloys; exotic metals, such as zirconium, hafnium, niobium, nickel-titanium, and their related alloys; and other specialty alloys primarily in long product forms, including ingots, billets, bars, shapes and rectangles, rods, wires, seamless tubes, and castings. This segment markets its products directly to end-use customers in the aerospace and defense, oil and gas, chemical process, electrical energy, and medical industries. Allegheny Technologies Flat-Rolled Products segment provides stainless steel, nickel-based alloys and superalloys, titanium and titanium-based alloys, and specialty alloys in various product forms, including plate, sheet, engineered strip, and precision rolled strip products, as well as grain-oriented electrical steel sheet. This segment serves the oil and gas, chemical process, electrical energy, automotive, food equipment and appliances, machine and cutting tools, construction and mining, aerospace and defense, electronics, communication equipment, and computer industries. Allegheny Technologies Engineered Products segment provides tungsten powders, tungsten heavy alloys, tungsten carbide materials, and tungsten carbide cutting tools. It also produces carbon alloy steel impression die forgings, and grey and ductile iron castings, as well as provides precision metals processing services, such as grinding, polishing, blasting, cutting, flattening, and ultrasonic testing. This segment serves various industrial markets, including automotive, oil and gas, chemical process, machine and cutting tools, aerospace, construction and mining, and other markets requiring tools with hardness. Allegheny Technologies was founded in 1960 and is based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Dynamic Materials Corporation is the world’s leading provider of explosion-welded clad metal plates. Its products, which are typically used in industrial capital projects, include explosion-welded clad metal plates and other metal fabrications for use in a variety of industries, including oil and gas, petrochemicals, alternative energy, hydrometallurgy, aluminum production, shipbuilding, power generation, industrial refrigeration and similar industries. Based in Boulder, Colorado, the Company operates three business segments: Explosive Metalworking, which uses proprietary explosive processes to fuse different metals and alloys; Oilfield Products, which manufactures, markets and sells specialized explosive components and systems used to perforate oil and gas wells; and AMK Welding, which utilizes various technologies to weld components for use in power-generation turbines, as well as commercial and military jet engines.

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