Patriot Coal Corporation engages in the production and sale of thermal coal in the United States. It has operations and coal reserves in Appalachia and the Illinois basin. The company provides its thermal coal to electric utilities, as well as metallurgical coal to steel mills and independent coke producers. It has 14 company-operated mines, contractor-operated mines, and coal preparation facilities that are located in West Virginia and Kentucky. As of December 31, 2009, Patriot Coal Corporation company controlled approximately 1.8 billion tons of proven and probable coal reserves. Patriot Coal Corporation, through its subsidiary, Magnum Coal Company, operates 8 mining complexes with production from surface and underground mines located in Appalachia, as well as controls approximately 600 million tons of proven and probable coal reserves. Patriot Coal Corporation company is based in St. Louis, Missouri.

Macsteel Service Centers USA offers one of the largest inventories of metals in the service center industry. . Macsteel Service Centers USA processes and distributes carbon, stainless, aluminum and specialty metals to customers throughout North America and Puerto Rico. Products include a full range of flat rolled, plate, tubing, pipe, bar and structurals. The company also supplies a full range of steel building products, coated and prepainted metals. Throughout the organization, Macsteel Service Centers USA is far more than just a source for metal. Across the board, our employees bring a true passion to the job--a passion that drives the company; that makes us reach higher, grow stronger and be a better source for our customers.Every day, either directly or indirectly, Macsteel Service Centers USA employees are working to meet customer needs for value-added products, for on-time delivery, for competitive pricing, for outstanding sourcing, for service that goes a little further than what is ordinarily expected. Our goal is to lead the competition in every aspect of our business by passionately pursuing customer satisfaction, spearheading industry innovation, and inspiring and empowering our employees. The Passion Runs Deep.

Playfair is changing focus to concentrate in the near term on a new copper silver opportunity in the Seal Lake basin. Acquired, by 100% staking, in 673 claims covering 16,825 hectares in the Seal Lake area of Central Labrador. The property covers some 136 copper and copper-silver occurrences including 16 copper-silver showings and 9 copper silver prospects, all discovered mainly via prospecting in the 1950's. Almost all the showings and prospects occur within a consistent and laterally extensive stratigraphic interval - the basal gray shale of the Upper Adeline Island Formation. The copper-silver enriched Adeline Island Formation is believed to form a canoe shape, with the rock unit outcropping over an estimated area measuring about 33km long by up to 4.4km wide. Playfair's Seal Lake Copper Silver Project covers the entire mapped extent of the favourable sedimentary unit and its probable subsurface continuation. The mineralization and geology of this new project is similar to the Kupferschiefer type copper-silver deposits that are the focus of ongoing work at Hana Mining's Ghanzi property in Botswana.Playfair continues to believe that there is a strong case for an upcoming global Tungsten shortage. With four high-grade Tungsten deposits Playfair remains well positioned to take advantage of the expected upcoming global Tungsten shortage and associated Tungsten price increase.

O'Neal Steel has an angle on the steel industry. One of the US's leading metals service companies, O'Neal sells a full range of metal products -- including angles, bars, beams, coil, pipe, plate, and sheet -- made from steel, aluminum, brass, and bronze. O'Neal Steel company operates about 75 facilities throughout the US as well as in Canada and Mexico; it also markets to Europe and the Asia/Pacific region, offering such metal-processing services as forming, laser cutting, machining, plasma cutting, tube bending, and sawing. Annual sales are more than $2 billion. Founded by Kirkman O'Neal in 1921 in Alabama, the company has expanded largely through acquisitions. It is still owned and run by the O'Neal family.

Gold Summit is actively looking at existing small discoveries in addition to adding shareholder value through exploration, prior to pre-development. The company’s preferred targets are high grade gold/silver deposits that would eventually be mined by underground methods. To maximize chances of exploration success, acquisition of whole districts with multiple targets is preferred. Within those districts, high quality geological mapping, rock and soil sampling as well as evaluation of work by previous explorers define drilling targets. Careful selection of these for testing is the key to success.Gold Summit explores in several favorable gold geological environments in the United States. The company’s main emphasis is Nevada, the third largest gold producing area in the world. It is a mining friendly state with a manageable regulatory framework, excellent infrastructure and year round access. Gold Summit’s geologists have worked there for the past 30 years.

Service center operator Everglades Steel processes and distributes steel products such as angles, channels, flat bars and strips, pipe fittings, stainless steel, and tubing. It also offers aluminum and various alloy products; services include galvanizing and shearing and sawing. Everglades Steel serves customers in the bridge construction, cement, metal fabrication, mining, and sugar mill industries.

United Steel Service, Inc. (UNISERV) is a full-line service center handling a broad range of carbon and stainless steel products, specializing in custom and production slitting and rail industry component fabrication.Every member of the UNISERV team understands that satisfying the needs of our customers is key. We are first, last and always a customer-driven company.

Robex is a junior Canadian mining exploration & development company with nine permits located in Mali, western Africa. Mali is currently Africa’s third most important gold producing country. Three of Robex’s permit are situated in southern Mali (Mininko, Kamasso and N’Golopene) while the six others are located in the western area of the country (Diangounte, Sanoula, Kolomba, Moussala, Wili-Wili and Wili-Wili west). Robex is presently working towards developing its permits which indicate favourable geology with ore potential.The priority permits for Robex are Wili-Wili, Wili-Wili west, as well as Mininko. The latter is host to a potential of an inferred resource of 760,000 ounces of gold with an average grade of 1.0 g/t in accordance with the Canadian standard 43-101 ( see rapport ). Robex is presently completing the Nampala prefeasibility study with the intent of installing a gravimetric mill with a daily capacity of 2,000 tons of ore mineral within the Saprolite.This past October, the engineering-consulting firm GENIVAR, of Québec, reviewed and consequently assessed the three-dimensional resource block-model on the mineralisation of the Nampala deposit. Initially, the three-dimensional resource block-model was completed in the framework of the gold resource estimate (NI 43-101 compliant) completed by the Australian consultant firm RSG Global (now Coffey Mining) completed in 2007. The plan and section review completed by Genivar provided a better understanding of the anticipated gold distribution within the Nampala deposit. With the information available to date, the 200 and 300 lenses situated in the central and western portion of the site indicate that inferred resources are estimated to be at 15,000 ounces of gold for Lens 200 and 71,000 ounces of gold for the Lens 300. The concentration and distribution within these two bodies represents, at present, a marginal economical potential which will be further investigated at a later stage. However, according to the block-model, Lens 100 developed along the eastern flank of the Nampala zone is host to an inferred resource of 675,000 ounces of gold contained within 14,130 Mt of ore at an average grade of 0.93 g/t Au. These resources are located between the surface and the explored depth of 150 meters. In accordance with NI 43-101 standards, the above findings are based on insufficient exploration to define a mineral resource, and as such, it is uncertain if further exploration will result in discovery of a mineral resource.

Columbia Falls Aluminum's smelting operations produces about 170,000 tons of aluminum annually. Its ingot, sheet, and bar products are sold to aluminum rolling mills and extrusion plants; its customers are located primarily in the US. Swiss natural resources conglomerate Glencore has owned Columbia Falls Aluminum since 1999. Among Glencore's other aluminum operations are Sherwin Alumina and Century Aluminum Company.

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.

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