NGK Metals manufactures beryllium copper metal alloy products. NGK Metals company's products are offered in forms including bar, plate, rod, strip, and tube. It also sells such goods as chill vents and safety tools. NGK Metals operates from facilities in France, Japan, and the US. NGK Metals company, also called NGK Berylco, is a subsidiary of the Japanese maker of insulation for utility and industrial electric lines, NGK INSULATORS.

Tenaris S.A., through its subsidiaries, engages in the manufacture and sale of steel pipe products. It operates in three segments: Tubes, Projects, and Other. The Tubes segment produces and sells seamless and welded steel tubular products, as well as provides related services for energy and industrial applications. The Projects segment manufactures and sells welded steel pipe products that are used in the construction of pipeline projects. The Other segment engages in the production and sale of sucker rods, welded steel pipes for electric conduits, industrial equipment, and raw materials. Tenaris S.A. also involves in the ownership and licensing of steel technology, as well as in the financial sector. Tenaris company serves oil and gas companies, as well as engineering companies engaged in constructing oil and gas gathering, transportation, and processing facilities. It operates in North America, South America, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, the Far East, and Oceania. Tenaris company is headquartered in Luxembourg, Luxembourg. Tenaris S.A. is a subsidiary of San Faustin N.V.

African Aura's strategy is to be a 'first mover' within highly prospective and under explored geological provinces, in pursuit of the next generation of gold and iron ore mines in emerging sub-Saharan Africa. It is the significant experience of working in Africa and the ability to identify and assess the non-geological risks inherent with investing in emerging countries that distinguishes the Company as a pioneer. Once opportunities have been identified the Company employs satellite borne and geological remote sensing datasets in order to select the highest priority areas to explore. This strategy allows our teams to have the highest chance of discovering those deposits which crop-out at surface. Historically these deposits are discovered fastest, for the lowest exploration cost and are the first to become mines. In addition to our flagship New Liberty Gold and Putu Iron Ore projects, African Aura has assembled a significant portfolio of projects in Liberia and Cameroon with over 20 deposits discovered by our exploration teams to date. These discoveries create a pipeline of opportunities for the Company; being at varying stages of exploration from reconnaissance sampling through to resource definition drilling.

When the aluminum century rolls around, it'll be ready. Century Aluminum makes primary molten and ingot aluminum at facilities in Kentucky and West Virginia, as well as in Iceland; that last facility is operated by subsidiary Nordural. Century Aluminum also owns just less than 50% of an aluminum production facility in South Carolina (Alcoa owns the rest). Four customers -- aluminum producer Rio Tinto Alcan, diversified metals company BHP Billiton, commodities trader Glencore International, and wire and cable maker Southwire -- account for about three-quarters of Century Aluminum's sales. Glencore is Century Aluminum's former parent, though it still has a 38% stake in the company.

Hillsborough Resources is in the rocky business of mining lumps of coal. The company mines coal through its principal property, the Quinsam mine on Vancouver Island, British Columbia. The underground mine produces thermal coal (used mainly to produce steam for generating electricity) which is then transported from its Middle Point facility to industrial customers (primarily in the cement industry) located in Canada and the US. It has another thermal coal mine in Tennessee under development. Hillsborough Resources is also acquiring holdings in coking coal development projects in other areas of British Columbia. In 2009 a unit of Swiss trading entity Vitol Group acquired Hillsborough.

Metorex Limited company controls the operations of several mining companies, which are prospecting for various metals in locations mostly in South Africa and Zambia. Metorex Limited company's holdings include Chibuluma Mines (copper, 90%-owned), Vergenoeg Mining (fluorspar, 70%-owned), and Pan African Resources (gold, 55%-owned), among others. Most of the company's sales come from copper and gold, but antimony, fluorspar, and cobalt also account for a large part of sales.

CPL Industries heats the hearths of UK residences, including Buckingham Palace. The company's CPL Distribution subsidiary (Coals2U) provides solid fuel to 150,000 residents and businesses in the UK and holds the Royal Warrant to supply coal to the Queen. CPL Products sell Homefire-brand products -- open-fire smokeless fuel. CPL Industries' Logs2U division sells firelogs and other wood fuels. The company's Creative Garden Idea unit sells a line of gardening and leisure products. CPL Industries sold its oil distribution business in 2007 in order to focus on the solid fuels market. A management buyout led to the formation of CPL Industries in 1995.

PDM entered the steel service center industry in California with its 1954 acquisition of the Proctor-James Steel Company in San Jose. In 1955 Kyle and Company, with facilities at Fresno, Stockton and Sacramento was added. With four service centers, PDM was able to provide outstanding service throughout central and northern California.In 1962, new facilities were constructed at Fresno, California giving improved service to customers in the central California area. Recognizing the great potential for its products and services, the Company established a fifth service center in the Reno/Sparks area of Nevada in 1963. In 1968, the new service center facilities at Fresno and Sacramento and the existing facilities at Santa Clara and Sparks were greatly augmented by the completion of the semi-automated center at Stockton.The latest in material handling fixtures and equipment were used in the Stockton facility. Steel is stacked 24' in the air on specially constructed racks. Stacker Cranes are used to handle the material in the racks. The Stacker Cranes move the material from the order storage areas to delivery trucks.To provide the greatest possible service and selection for our customers, the "Common Inventory Concept" was established. This gave all customers access to the total company inventory at all locations.Under the Common Inventory Concept, Stockton is the geographical hub of the Service Wheel with spokes running north to Sacramento, east to Reno and Spanish Fork, south to Fresno, and west to Santa Clara. The "Interplant Transfer System" moves this Common Inventory from one location to another, allowing short lead-time delivery of most items regardless of the inventory source. The efficiency and success of this system has proven to be an important benefit to our customers.A new service center was established in Spanish Fork, Utah, south of Salt Lake City, in 1977. As customer demands for "pre-production processing" grew, new processing equipment was installed at all facilities. Shears, automatic saws, and shape burning equipment that can virtually burn in steel anything that can be drawn in two dimensions, are available at each center. Plasma cutting equipment allows shapes to be cut in material which is too thin to be cut with conventional flame cutting equipment. Computer aided design and CNC have made possible the burning of shapes too large to fit on paper and too complex to be easily laid out on a drafting table, while at the same time allowing for the efficient "nesting" of burned parts for reduced scrap loss.

Craig Yarde founded Yarde Metals Inc. in 1976 when he established a small office in the basement of his home in Bristol, CT and began brokering metal over the phone with $1000 from the sale of his motorcycle! The phones seldom rang and were usually answered by his wife or his three year old daughter. Metal orders were picked up and delivered by family members in his station wagon. Craig partnered with his brother, Bruce Yarde, the following year and moved into a small rented factory on South Street in Bristol, CT. In 1986, Yarde Metals moved to an 85,000 square foot facility to accommodate the growing product line, services and sales. The company quickly outgrew this space and moved to a completely renovated state of the art 500,000 square foot facility in Southington, CT in June of 2003. Our corporate headquarters is more like a museum than a distribution warehouse and its unique style supports Craig's out-of-the-box business philosophy that has facilitated his success. Yarde Metals now has nine service centers in addition to its corporate headquarters. They are located in: Albany, New York; Happauge, New York; Syracuse, New York; Pelham, New Hampshire; High Point, North Carolina; Streetsboro, Ohio; Limerick, Pennsylvania; Mendon, Massachusetts;. Yarde Metals has expanded internationally throughout Europe and Asia and processes the majority of international business through our Happauge, New York facility as well as our corporate headquarters. We have representatives in Korea and China to help support our international sales business.

Calibre Mining is exploring a commanding and strategic, 710 sq kilometre land position in a highly prospective, but underexplored region of the historic "Mining Triangle" in northeast Nicaragua. The Borosi Concessions, named for the three historical producing regions of Bonanza, Rosita and Siuna, are highly prospective for gold and copper mineralization associated with skarn and epithermal deposits. A systematic and disciplined exploration program is being conducted at Borosi and three projects within the concessions advanced to the drill testing stage in early 2010.

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