The Diamond Trading Company (DTC) is the sales and marketing jewel of diamond-mining giant De Beers SA -- which is owned by Anglo American (45%), the Oppenheimer family (40%), and the government of Botswana (15%). The DTC supplies almost half of all the rough diamonds on the market. It receives diamonds primarily from Botswana, Namibia, and South Africa. The DTC participates in joint ventures with the governments of Botswana and Namibia to sell diamonds from those countries. After sorting and valuing the diamonds, the Diamond Trading company sells the gems to clients, or sightholders. On the marketing side, the DTC promotes diamonds through such programs as the well-known "A Diamond Is Forever" advertising campaign.

Wesco Financial chooses Precision Steel Warehouse (PSW). The Wesco subsidiary is a steel service center, a sort of middle man that buys steel directly from manufacturers and then processes it to sell in smaller batches to other businesses. Products -- including carbon and alloy steels, stainless steels, aluminum, and brass -- are sold to a wide range of customers; PSW also offers services such as blanking, cut-to-length, edging, leveling, shearing, and slitting. Precision Steel Warehouse company operates from locations in Illinois and North Carolina. Wesco is primarily owned by Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway.

Ferrostaal builds the places at which stuff gets made and supplies the stuff that allows us to get our stuff done. Ferrostaal is involved in project development and management in plant construction and engineering. It builds water treatment facilities, industrial plants, bridges, and power plants; it also provides financial planning, system integration, and equipment installation at the facilities. While Ferrostaal has operations throughout the world, almost half of the company's sales are to Latin America. It was a wholly owned subsidiary of Germany's MAN until Abu Dhabi's International Petroleum Investment Company (IPIC) bought 70% of Ferrostaal in 2009. Ferrostaal dropped the prefix MAN soon after.

The buffet line at Marubeni-Itochu Steel America (marketed as MISA) starts with hot and cold rolls. The subsidiary of Marubeni-Itochu Steel maintains a large inventory of steel products such as cold-rolled flat steel, hot-rolled steel, stainless steel and specialty steel, and tin mill products. Marubeni-Itochu Steel America company also provides services like blanking, cut-to-length, laser welding, and stamping. It also provides supply chain management and residential and commercial building materials. MISA's products serve the automotive, shipbuilding, and oil and gas industries. It has locations spread throughout the US, Canada, and Mexico, with liaison offices in South America.

Berlin Metals is who you should call (800/754-8867) and rely on when you need the finest Tin Mill Products, Stainless Steel Strip, light gauge Cold Rolled Steel and light gauge Galvanized Steel in slit coil form.We work hard to make sure our quality material gets to you the way you need it and when you need it. Our returns are less than ½ of 1% and our on-time deliveries are over 98%. We are working continually to improve those numbers.Additionally, for producing mills and end users alike, we provide the highest quality, scratch free, toll slitting of Aluminum (bare or coated) coils and bare, plastic laminated and coated steel coils.

Evraz Group S.A. is a large vertically-integrated steel, mining and vanadium business with operations in the Russian Federation, Ukraine, Europe, USA, Canada and South Africa. The Company is ranked the 14th largest steel producer in the world based on crude steel production of 15.3 million tonnes in 2009. Evraz is largely self-sufficient in respect of its iron ore and coking coal requirements with the majority of its internal consumption covered by its mining operations. Evraz's consolidated revenues for the year ended 31 December 2009 totalled US$9,772 million, while consolidated adjusted EBITDA(1) amounted to US$1,237 million.Evraz Group’s principal metallurgical assets include three of Russia’s leading steel plants: Nizhny Tagil Iron and Steel Plant (“NTMK”) in the Urals region and West Siberian Iron and Steel Plant (“Zapsib”) and Novokuznetsk Iron and Steel Plant (“NKMK”) in Siberia. The Company's presence in North America comprises its steelmaking subsidiary Evraz Inc. NA, which includes Evraz Oregon Steel, Evraz Claymont Steel and Evraz Rocky Mountain Steel in the United States together with Evraz Red Deer Works, Evraz Calgary Works, Evraz Camrose Works and Evraz Regina Steel in Canada. Evraz also owns the Dnepropetrovsk Iron and Steel Works (“DMZ”) in Ukraine, Evraz Palini e Bertoli (“Evraz Palini e Bertoli”) in Italy, Evraz Vitkovice Steel (“Evraz Vitkovice”) in the Czech Republic and Evraz Highveld Steel and Vanadium Corporation Limited (“Evraz Highveld”) in South Africa. In Ukraine, Evraz acquired three coking plants – Bagleykoks Coke Chemical Plant (“Bagleykoks”), Dnepropetrovsk Coke Chemical Plant (“Dneprokoks”) and Dneprodzerzhinsk Coke Chemical Plant (“DKHZ”).The Company’s mining division includes the iron ore mining complexes: Evrazruda, Kachkanarsky Ore Mining and Processing Enterprise Vanady (‘KGOK”) and Vysokogorsky Ore Mining and Processing Enterprise (“VGOK”) in Russia, the Sukha Balka Iron Ore Mining and Processing Complex (“Sukha Balka”) in Ukraine and the Yuzhkuzbassugol Coal Company (”Yuzhkuzbassugol”) in Western Siberia. The Company also holds a 40% equity interest in the Raspadskaya Coal Company (“Raspadskaya”). Evraz operates as a vertically-integrated steel producer: in 2009 the Company was self-sufficient in respect of 96% of its internal iron ore requirements and 74% of its coking coal consumption. Evraz produced approximately 17.4 million tonnes of iron ore products in 2009 and mined 10.3 million tonnes of coking coal.In 2009, the Company hold large shares of the Russian steel construction product market, in particular of H-beams, channels and rebars. Evraz accounts for 100% of rail sales in Russia and ranks second in the country’s rail wheel market.Evraz is also a major supplier of semi-finished products, slabs and billets to world markets.Evraz is a prominent player in the European plate market.Evraz is the No 1 producer of rails in the USA, the second largest producer of plate in terms of capacity and is acknowledged as a primary North American producer of tubular products, particularly in respect of LD pipes and OCTG pipes.

Unigold Inc. is a Canadian headquartered public company whose principal activity is to explore, discover, and develop gold deposits. Its main focus to date has been on its 100% owned 226 square kilometers property in the Dominican Republic. Unigold’s strategy is to target bulk tonnage, open pittable, oxide gold deposits with a goal to finding a deposit equivalent in size to the world class Pueblo Viejo Gold Mine in the Dominican Republic.The Pueblo Viejo Gold Mine has produced over 5 million ounces from oxide ore between 1975 and 1993 and contains an additional geological inventory of 20.4million ounces of gold in sulphide ore. (proven and probable). The mine is currently being developed by partners Barrick Gold Corporation and Goldcorp Inc.Unigold’s strategy is to target bulk tonnage, open-pittable, oxide gold deposits with a goal to finding a deposit equivalent in size to the world class Pueblo Viejo Gold Mine in the Dominican Republic.The next round of drilling on Los Candelones is designed to outline higher grade zones, confirm the mineralization continuity on the sulphide zones as shown by the IP and to define the easily accessible 15-30m thick oxide cap 15-35m above and surrounding the sulphide mineralization.Unigold will also drill test several of the new showings discovered on the Neita property.Unigold will continue to expand the reach of the field exploration program on its extensive Dominican properties. Exploration upside remains very strong with certain remote regions remaining largely untouched.With Unigold’s reconnaissance license in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, the company is actively pursuing opportunities in the Middle East and is committed to developing a strong asset base and/or partnership in the region.

Freegold Ventures Limited is a North American gold exploration company. Current projects include Golden Summit, Rob and Vinasale. On the Golden Summit Project in Alaska, exploration discovered new high-grade veins and bulk tonnage shear zones. At Freegold's Rob project drilling insected high-grade gold mineralization. Exploration was also undertaken on the Vinasale Gold deposit in an effort to expand the known 920,000 historical gold resource (not 43-101 compliant).

Eti Maden is on top of the world when it comes to producing borates. The Turkish state-owned company, through Eti Mine Works, is a world-leading miner and processor of boron. (Turkey holds about 60% of the world's boron reserves.) Eti produces about 2.5 million tons of boron concentrate from its mines and processes much of that to be used in products such as soaps, detergents, glass, fertilizers, and nuclear materials. Eti Maden also produces perlite, which is used as a construction material, scrubbing sand in refineries, and for growing in greenhouses, among other applications.

Shougang Concord International trades in a variety of industries, although steel production is its bread and butter. The bulk of its revenues come from the manufacture of steel plates and products; it is also engaged in steel trading, iron ore mining, coking coal mining, copper and brass products, and shipping operations. Shougang's steel production is handled through subsidiary Qinhuangdao Shougang Plate Mill. Its Shougang Concord Shipping division operates time charter freight shipping. Most of Shougang's sales are to mainland China and Hong Kong.

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