Samuel, Son & Co., Limited is distinguished in North America as the 5th largest processor and distributor of carbon steel, stainless steel, and aluminum. Samuel's product offerings most recently expanded into plastics, packaging, and diverse manufacturing capabilities.We operate 90 privately-held distribution and processing facilities, strategically located worldwide. The customers we serve range in size from leading automotive manufacturers to specialized product designers, yet each one is treated with the same superior customer service that you would expect from a 5th generation, family-run business.Large product inventories, including pre-processed sheet, coil, strip, blanks, plate, extrusions, and bar are maintained nationwide in a complete range of grades, tempers, shapes and sizes. Samuel has developed leading-edge metals processing capabilities to exacting tolerances. We are a leader in quality and each center is audited by ISO quality management systems, in addition to certification standards serving the aerospace and automotive industries. Our Product Group and Technical Service experts are here to assist you in choosing the best metals product for your needs, each and every time.

Severstal Warren has the capability to produce the broadest range of steel grades of any steel producer in the United States. Severstal Warren recently completed the installation of a walking beam slab reheat furnace at our hot strip mill that has improved quality, reduced operating costs and increased production of custom steel products. Severstal Warren offers approximately 185 grades of high-quality steel used by strip converters, processors, service centers, construction products companies and, to a lesser extent, the automotive industry. End uses for Severstal Warren steel include side door intrusion beams, garden tools, golf club shafts, aircraft parts and culvert for the construction industry.

Premier Steel processes and distributes flat bar and plate products made from hot-rolled carbon and alloy steels. It operates from facilities in Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, New Jersey, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin. Premier Steel company also acts as a sales agent for the Norwegian Fundia Profiler, a supplier of steel products for shipbuilders. Premier Steel was founded in 1992 by president and CEO Steven Bergman.

We are a leading producer of coal in Northern and Central Appalachia with a broad range of mid-to-high Btu, low-to-medium sulfur steam and metallurgical coal. We also have a complementary mining complex of mid-to-high sulfur steam coal strategically located in the Illinois Basin. We currently own and operate 13 active mining complexes, 12 of which are dispersed within Central Appalachia and Northern Appalachia, with the one complex in the Illinois Basin.We market our coal to a diverse customer base of largely investment grade electric utilities, as well as domestic industrial and steel customers. Coupling our primarily high-BTU, low-sulfur steam and metallurgical quality coal with the availability of multiple transportation options throughout the Appalachian region, we participate in both the domestic and international coal markets.

Tyhee Development Corp. ("TDC") is a publicly-traded mining company listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange (Venture). Tyhee Development Corp. Company is engaged in the exploration and development of mineral properties in Canada and internationally.We endeavor to become a leading exploration and development company in search of world class deposits in countries that possess favorable investment climates, to accomplish this by optimizing the use of leading exploration technologies and to continue to apply a sense of corporate, social and environmental consciousness in reaching these objectives.

Cline is a Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX – “CMK”) listed company in the business of acquiring, exploring and developing mine mineral resource properties to production in Canada, United States and overseas. The Company is a growth-oriented mine finder, developer and operator with an experienced management team and is supported by its strategic international corporate partner and shareholder, Mitsui Matsushima, a Japanese coal miner and conglomerate, which is also represented on the Cline Board of Directors. Cline is developing its Lossan and Lodgepole metallurgical coal mine projects in British Columbia, Canada – C.I. 43 101 compliant Reports and feasibility studies completed; extensive diamond drilling program in progress at its Cline Lake gold property Ontario, Canada; additional iron ore mineral exploration on extensions and step-out areas at its Bekisopa, Madagascar iron ore properties; development of its New Elk metallurgical and thermal coal mine property in Colorado, U.S.A.

Lachlan Star Limited is an emerging minerals exploration and development company headquartered in Perth, Western Australia. The company is focused on acquiring and developing assets within the gold, copper and bulk commodities sectors within Australia and overseas. The company has a board of directors and management team with an impressive track record of advancing resource projects through to production.Lachlan Star’s current projects include the Bushranger copper and gold project in NSW and Princhester magnesite deposit in QLD. It is planned to focus exploration activities on the Bushranger Project whilst other corporate opportunities are pursued.

Northern Steel Group is all about service. The unit of Severstal North America operates through a number of steel service centers spread throughout Illinois, Missouri, and Ohio. Formerly called Esmark, the company brings together subsidiaries including Sun Steel and Century Steel. Northern Steel also works closely with European steel maker Ferrostaal on a trading joint venture called United Steel Group. Northern Steel Group changed its name after its 2008 acquisition by Russian giant Severstal.

Kumba Iron Ore Limited, a member of the Anglo American plc group, is a leading value-adding supplier of the highest quality iron ore to the global steel industry. The South African based company is the fourth largest supplier of seaborne iron ore in the world, exporting more than 34 million tonnes per annum to steelmakers in Europe, the Middle-East, and Asia. Kumba has reserves of more than a billion tons of high quality haematite.Kumba Iron Ore Limited company operates two opencast mines in South Africa – Sishen Mine and Thabazimbi Mine. Together they produce more than 40Mt of iron ore per annum (Mtpa), which accounts for 81% of South Africa’s total production and around 4% of the global seaborne trade. The combined reserves of these mines exceed one billion tons of high quality iron ore.An expansion project named Kolomela, which uses jig technology, is ramping up to reach a capacity of 13Mtpa in 2010. A new greenfields project will supply an additional 9Mtpa by 2013.Thabazimbi Mine’s product is sold exclusively to ArcelorMittal South Africa.In 2008 Kumba received a new order mining right to proceed with the Kolomela project and converted old order mining rights for the existing Sishen and Thabazimbi mines. Receiving these rights enabled the company to focus on the extraction of the resources and significantly strengthened business security.Kumba has been exporting iron ore to Europe and Japan since 1976 and has established enduring relations with the most significant steel mills in these countries. These customers regard Kumba as a strategic supplier of superior iron ore that enhances their furnaces’ efficiencies. The company was also a “first mover” into China by investing in the port of Qingdao in the early 1990s. This enabled Kumba to secure its customer base in Northern China and to take full advantage of the remarkable growth in the Chinese steel industry when production quadrupled during the commodities boom of 2000 – 2008.

This company's path of exploration "orbits" around the universe of prospecting for diamonds, gold, and other precious metals. Founded in 1983, Exploration Orbite mainly explores and mines for precious and other metals including gold, copper, nickel, and zinc, as well as diamonds, in Quebec. Exploration Orbite owns and operates several properties in the prolific Abitibi area in Canada, with the Le Tac property representing its primary project in an advanced stage of exploration drilling. None of Exploration Orbite's projects are currently in production.

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