Metal Connections, Inc. is a privately owned and operated metal distributor. Founded by John Wolf and Joe Papol in 1999, we carry full lines of 6061, 7075 and Cast Tool and Jig domestic plates. Metal Connections is also a supplier of stainless steel, extrusions, brass, copper and other specialty metals. Metal Connections can provide many advantages to your operations. We provide superior service, quality metals and convenience, but what really sets us apart from other metal distributors is our knowledgeable sales staff. With services such as custom cutting, no minimum purchase, next day and same day delivery it's easy to make us "your connection for superior service and quality metals."

Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold (FCX) really digs its profits. Its 91%-owned subsidiary, PT Freeport Indonesia (PT-FI), operates the vast open-pit Grasberg gold, copper, and silver mine in Indonesia, whose government owns the other 9%. FCX controls proved and probable reserves of about 100 billion pounds of copper, 47 million ounces of gold, and 2.5 billion pounds of molybdenum. Copper, in the form of concentrates and in refined products such as cathodes and anodes, accounts for most of FCX's sales. It's the world's #2 copper company behind Codelco. FCX is also engaged in smelting and refining through PT-FI's 25% stake in PT Smelting, which operates a copper smelter and refinery in Indonesia.

ThyssenKrupp Materials NA takes that copper and steel and processes it into something more usable. The North American materials management division of German industrial behemoth ThyssenKrupp operates through a number of subsidiary companies. Copper and Brass Sales is a non-ferrous metals service center, while Ken-Mac Metals processes flat-roll aluminum. Other business units include AIN Plastics (an engineered plastics distributor), TMX Aerospace (supply chain management services for aerospace programs), and TKX Logistics (a transportation logistics provider).

Benguet Corporation was established in 1903, pioneering the first major mining operation in the Philippines. It spearheaded a consolidation and expansion of gold mines as well as the diversification in other mineral products like copper, chromite and lime. Until the late 1980s, Benguet Corporation was known as the biggest gold mining company in the Philippines and the 16th largest in the world. Similarly, it's chromite operation in Masinloc, known internationally as "Masinloc Ore", and its highly profitable Dizon Copper Gold operation in San Marcelino, Zambales were the largest in the country. The inspiring history of the company reveals a potent organization with a distinct capability to overcome and survive extremely difficult circumstances, such as World War II, countless natural disasters, political upheavals and cyclical economic conditions. Over the past 100 years, Benguet has built up its professional reputation as the colossus of Philippine mining. This is evident in its hardy pioneering spirit, introducing modern technology and innovative mining practices which have become models of the industry, through its mutually beneficial labor relations and support for its workforce and families to build better lives and progressive communities.Through corporate consolidation and forward-looking management strategies, the company hurdled each time, the obstacles of growth to become the company's premier mining company for the most part of 20th century. This can be credited to its enlightened and competent leaders and its pool of dedicated and talented employees, who have distinguished themselves in the industry. Benguet Corporation will continue to do what it knows and does best which is natural resource development. Aside from its core business of mining and mineral exploration, the company and its subsidiaries will be actively engaged in land and water resource development, construction, engineering and technical services, forest management and eco-tourism, while maintaining its interest in allied industries such as steel casting, trucking and warehouse management, and trading. For the 21st century, Benguet Corporation has set its vision to be the leading total natural resource development and services conglomerate, imbued with zest and determination to transform its assets into trailblazing projects that build upon the heritage of the Company.

Randgold Resources is an African focused gold mining and exploration company with primary listings on the London Stock Exchange and Nasdaq. Major discoveries to date include the 7.5 million ounce Morila deposit in southern Mali, the 7 million ounce Yalea deposit and the 3 million ounce Gounkoto deposit, both in western Mali, the 4 million ounce Tongon deposit in the Côte d’Ivoire and the 3 million ounce Massawa deposit in eastern Senegal.Randgold Resources (‘Randgold’) financed and built the Morila mine which since October 2000 has produced more than 5.5 million ounces of gold and distributed more than US$1.5 billion to stakeholders. It also financed and built the Loulo operation which started as two open pit mines in November 2005. Since then, an underground mine has been developed at the Yalea deposit and construction of a second underground operation is underway at the Gara deposit. First gold production from the company’s new mine being developed at Tongon is scheduled for the fourth quarter of 2010.Randgold’s current major projects are Gounkoto on the Loulo permit in Mali, Massawa in Senegal and Kibali in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. In 2009 the company acquired a 45% interest in the Kibali project, which now stands at 9.2 million ounces of reserves and is one of the largest undeveloped gold deposits in Africa. Randgold also has an extensive portfolio of organic growth prospects, which is constantly replenished by intensive exploration programmes in Burkina Faso, Côte d’Ivoire, DRC, Mali and Senegal.

ATAC Resources Ltd. (ATC:TSX-V) is a closely held junior exploration company aggressively exploring for gold in Yukon, Northwest Territories and British Columbia. The Company's corporate philosophy is to maximize shareholder value by identifying and acquiring grassroots and early-stage gold prospects. The company's management team and board of directors include geologists and engineers with over 160 years of collective exploration experience in western Canada. Archer, Cathro & Associates (1981) Limited is ATAC's exploration consultant. Over the past 40 years, Archer Cathro has earned a reputation as one of the most highly regarded exploration organizations in western Canada. ATAC has full access to the Archer Cathro exploration database, which when married with the experience of its management team, will facilitate the development of a portfolio of gold projects that are attractive for option or joint venture by junior and senior mining and development companies. In this manner, the Company can take advantage of leveraging third party exploration expenditures to the full benefit of the Company's shareholders.

Azure Resources explores and develops mineral properties in Pakistan and Botswana. It owns 90% of a copper/gold exploration project located near Pakistan's border with China. Anglo-Australian mining giant Rio Tinto jointly owns the Kang-Kokong diamond mine in Botswana and operates the project through subsidiary Tinto Botswana. In 2008 Azure Resources company changed its name from Trivalence Mining.

Berg Steel Pipe Corporation (BSPC) was founded in 1979 by two companies of the Bergrohr family, a group of German large-diameter pipe companies. In 1992, EUROPIPE GmbH became 100% owner of BSPC. EUROPIPE is headquartered in Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany and is a joint venture between AG der Dillinger Hüttenwerke and Salzgitter Mannesmann GmbH. EUROPIPE owns large-diameter pipe facilities in Mülheim an der Ruhr (Germany), Dunkerque (France) and Serra (Brazil).The EUROPIPE North American pipe manufacturing operations are represented by BSPC in Panama City, Florida and Berg Spiral Pipe Corp. (BSPM) in Mobile, Alabama.In 1995, eb Pipe Coating, Inc.(ebPC) was was set up and began operations adjacent to BSPC's mill in Panama City, Florida.In addition to the manufacturing operations, BERG EUROPIPE Corp. (BEC) in Houston, Texas, founded in 2007, is tasked with all North American sales and marketing acitivity.

GreenFields Coal's goal is cleaner coal. GreenFields Coal's goal has developed a patent-pending technology and three-step process that turns coal refuse into cleaner-burning coal briquettes for various alternative energy uses. Compared to other commercially available coal products, its solid briquettes have shown lower toxin levels and moisture content, as well as good durability and weather resistance. No underground mining is involved at GreenFields' processing facilities, although its technology can be deployed alongside traditional coal mine operations to help reduce the coal waste that typically goes into slurry ponds. GreenFields Coal's goal primarily targets the power generation and steel production markets.

King’s Bay Gold Corporation (TSX.V: KBG) is an active mineral resource company, which is engaged in the acquisition of interests in, and the exploration of, mineral resource properties in North West Ontario. The Corporation’s mandate is to acquire, evaluate and bring significant gold and other precious metal properties to the development stage. During the last eleven years, the Corporation has been assembling a portfolio of precious metal exploration prospects most notably in the Red Lake gold camp, the majority of which are located in close proximity of present and past producing mines. Certain of these properties exhibit high-grade gold values, rare earths, rare metals and other industrially useful minerals and metals.The Corporation is unique in the industry in that it owns, and therefore controls for itself, most of the equipment required to carry out the various phases of exploration. Key pieces of this equipment include diamond drill rigs, bulldozers and skidders. Other equipment includes rod sloops, thousands of feet of BQ and NQ drill rods, water heaters for winter drilling, high pressure water pumps and nozzles for outcrop stripping, a fleet of trucks, all terrain vehicles and a shop full of spare parts and tools.The Corporation’s goal will always be growth. Strengthening the Corporation’s management team and Board of Directors, and by acquiring significantly advanced exploration projects may provide shareholders with an opportunity to increase the value of their investments over the long term.The Corporation’s shorter-term goals are to advance its projects to the feasibility stage, with the intent of becoming a small to medium tier minerals producer. The quality of the Corporation’s projects, an aggressive acquisitions strategy based on acquiring properties near present and past producers, and the proven background of the management team will allow the Corporation to become an emerging leader in the Canadian mining industry.King’s Bay Gold Corporation is a Winnipeg-based company that was incorporated pursuant to the Canada Business Corporations Act (“CBCA”) on March 20th, 1998. The Corporation became a publicly traded entity on the TSX Venture Exchange in April 2002 (TSX.V symbol: KBG). Since then, the Corporation has completed several prospective offerings and private placement offerings with the net capital raised being used to complete the exploration and development programs for the properties where it has land option and joint venture agreements.

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