Universal Stainless & Alloy Products, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, manufactures and markets semi-finished and finished specialty steel products, including stainless steel, tool steel, and certain other alloyed steels primarily in the United States. Universal Stainless & Alloy Products company involves in melting, remelting, heat treating, hot and cold rolling, machining, and cold drawing semi-finished and finished specialty steels. It produces steel products in the form of ingots, blooms, billets, bars, slabs, and plates. Universal Stainless & Alloy Products company also offers conversion services on materials supplied by its customers, as well as produces customized shapes primarily for original equipment manufacturers. It sells its products to rerollers, forgers, service centers, original equipment manufacturers, and wire redrawers. Universal Stainless & Alloy Products company serves aerospace, power generation, petrochemical, and heavy equipment manufacturing industries. Universal Stainless & Alloy Products, Inc. was founded in 1994 and is headquartered in Bridgeville, Pennsylvania.

ALROSA Co. Ltd. is Russia's largest diamond company engaged in the exploration, mining, manufacture and sales of diamonds and one of the world's major rough diamond producers. ALROSA produces about 20% of the world's rough diamond output and accounts for almost 100% of all rough diamonds produced in Russia.According to tentative data, ALROSA Group’s rough diamond production in 2007 totaled $2.36 billion USD, while its polished diamond sales totaled $146.7 million USD.The company's activities are regulated by its Charter, agreements of lease with the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) and decrees of the President of the Russian Federation. In conformity with its Charter, ALROSA is a close-type joint stock company and it does not have a stock exchange listing. Though under its present name the company has operated since 1993, it has a longer history that dates back to 1954 when Russia's first diamond-bearing kimberlite pipe was discovered. ALROSA Co. Ltd. was set up under Decree 158C of the President of the Russian Federation 'On the Establishment of the Almazy Rossii-Sakha Joint Stock Company' signed on 19 February 1992.

PBS Coals is a leading provider of metallurgical and steam coals from both surface and deep mines for the metals, energy and industrial sectors. Its proximity to east coast U.S. ports allows PBS Coals to quickly and cost effectively supply customers in North America, South America, Europe and Asia.PBS Coals was established in 1963 and developed over the years by NSM of England. It was formerly owned by Penfold Capital Acquisitions. The privately held company was purchased by Severstal Resources, a division of OAO Severstal.Annual breakdown of production: 55 percent coking coal and 45 percent steam coal. Two coal preparation plants fully operational with 1,100 raw tonnes per hour processing capability.

Norilsk Nickel is the world’s largest producer of nickel and palladium and one of the leading producers of platinum and copper. It also produces various by-products, such as cobalt, chromium, rhodium, silver, gold, iridium, ruthenium, selenium, tellurium and sulfur.The Group is involved in prospecting, exploration, extraction, refining and metallurgical processing of minerals, as well as in production, marketing and sale of base and precious metals.Norilsk Nickel’s production facilities are located on four continents and in six countries: Russia, Australia, Botswana, Finland, the United States of America and South Africa.In Russia, the Company’s shares are traded on the Moscow Interbank Currency Exchange (MICEX) and the Russian Trading System (RTS). The ADRs of the Company’s shares are traded over-the-counter (OTC) in the United States, on the electronic International Order Book Unlisted section of the London Stock Exchange and on the Freiverkehr (OTC-section) of the Berlin-Bremen Stock Exchange. As a result of the share split, the Company’s shares convert into ADRs at a ration 1:10 effective since February 19, 2008.When determining the strategy for its global operations and future development, Norilsk Nickel is focused on compliance with all social and environmental responsibility principles in the various countries in which it operates, which is essential for ensuring sustainable and efficient business development.

Excellon Resources Inc. (TSX: EXN),a mineral resource company operating in Durango and Zacatecas States, Mexico, is committed to building value through production, expansion and discovery. Excellon Resources is producing silver, lead and zinc from high-grade manto deposits on its Platosa Property, strategically located in the middle of the Mexican silver belt. In fiscal 2010, Excellon's focus remains on increasing its Mineral Resources at Platosa through an aggressive $12.7-million exploration program, and expanding its operating capacity to maximize the value of the recently acquired Miguel Auza mill. The Platosa Property, not fully explored, has several geological indicators of a large carbonate replacement deposit (CRD) mineralized system, the tracking of which Excellon believes will lead to the discovery of a world class deposit. At Miguel Auza, located in the northern portion of the Zacatecas-Fresnillo silver belt, an initial exploration program to evaluate the potential of this largely underexplored property, the site of considerable historic and recent production from epithermal precious and base metal veins began in the fall of 2009.

Eastmain Resources does most of its mineral exploration in the Eastmain River area. Eastmain Resources explores for and develops deposits of precious and base metals in Canada, predominantly looking for gold ore in Northern Quebec. Most of the company's funding goes to its Clearwater gold project. It also has properties located throughout Ontario and New Brunswick. Eastmain Resources holds a 50% stake in the Reserve Creek gold project in Ontario. Eastmain Resources explores many of its properties through joint venture partnerships with other mining firms including Barrick Gold, Xstrata, and Dianor Resources.

From the early days in 1965 to the present, Eastern Alloys has developed and implemented a series of programs, or tools, to support the marketplace. The business was founded upon the notion that customer success would provide the energy and impetus to drive the company's growth. By any measure that business model has succeeded. Today, Eastern Alloys operates two discrete manufacturing and recycling facilities: the flagship plant in Maybrook, NY, and Eastern Alloys of Kentucky, LLC, in Henderson, KY. Dedicated in April 2000, the Kentucky plant is the newest, most technologically advanced zinc alloy complex ever constructed.Today, businesses in all industries are faced with making hard decisions that will impact future performance, in some case survivability. Everything is in play, everything. Some part of the solution is simple, at least from a philosophical perspective. Different results are the reciprocal of different actions, or inputs. To continue the same practices only assures the same results. So then, success is about making choices.For every manufacturer of zinc alloy die castings, large or small, zinc alloy is typically one of the largest, if not the single largest cost component when measured as a percent of cost of goods sold. So it follows that selecting a supplier is serious business, especially in today's environment. In addition to raw materials, a zinc alloy supplier must be able to deliver the necessary services, information, and support that contribute materially towards its customers' success. To just ship a truck filled with raw material and mail an invoice falls short of the mark. Suppliers of die castings are being pressed to find ways to remove or reduce cost. In this context suppliers must become strategic trading partners. Selecting a supplier of zinc alloy is at least as serious as choosing a bank, business consultant, die casting machine builder, or tool maker, perhaps more so.For 37 years, Eastern Alloys has sought to develop innovative solutions to benefit the North American zinc die casting industry. Early programs include ZA Alloy development, including providing industry-wide access to ZA trademark rights. Other programs include what was originally known as the Australian Die Casting Technology Transfer program continuing today as Low Mass Technology. Eastern took the lead in market development supporting the IZA's Marketing Conference series for manufacturers of zinc die castings. Eastern was a founding member of Interzinc, a zinc-specific marketing consortium. Importantly, under the leadership of Richard J. Bauer, Eastern's founder and Chairman, the company rallied the Washington Conference for Zinc, not once but twice, to thwart an attempt to include zinc in Super Fund legislation.More recently, Eastern Alloys has expanded its customer-centric improvement engineering program developing user-friendly PQ2 EA software. At the 21st NADCA Congress & Exposition the company introduced ZinCalc, a program designed to assist die casters improve 1st pass material efficiency. Plus, the improvement engineering group continues working closely with customers and end-users to improve in-plant performance and develop new applications for zinc alloys. Because the business of buying and selling zinc alloys is not without risk, Eastern has developed a formal Price Risk Management facility available to every customer. To that end Eastern was elected a member of the London Metal Exchange earlier in the year. Each business day the company is connected to the world's metals and financial centers via real-time satellite down link. Add to that the company's comprehensive Market Development, Strategic Market Planning, and Supply Chain Management programs, Eastern Alloys delivers expansive resources to drive customer growth.

Anyang Iron & Steel manufactures a wide array of iron and steel products from facilities in the Henan province of China. Established in 1958, Anyang Iron & Steel company produces steel wire and plates, steel sections, tubes, coking products, pig iron, foundry iron, nodular iron tubes, and other end products. Its metal production encompasses some 50 grades and 2,000 specifications, with about 70% of its exports consisting of ship plates, steel used in pipelines, and other high value-added products. Anyang Iron & Steel company has a production capacity of about 10 million tons a year. Anyang has been investing in clean production technology to ultimately reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 1 million tons a year.

Niocan has a can-do attitude when it comes to mining niobium. The company explores for niobium, a talc-like mineral that is used in the production of steel and superalloys, at its Oka ferroniobium project in Quebec. Niobium competes with other minerals such as vanadium and molybdenum. Niocan company is looking to get authorization from the government to begin production at its Oka project. In 2005 co-founder Rene Dufour retired as chairman and CEO. Founded in 1995, Niocan is 20%-owned by Electrum Ferrometals.

Hunter Dickinson is a private umbrella organization that manages about nine publicly traded mining companies. Those companies -- which include Anooraq Resources, Farallon Resources, and Northern Dynasty Minerals -- have interests in copper, gold, lead, molybdenum, silver, and zinc, with operations in the Americas, China, and South Africa. Hunter Dickinson specializes in acquiring and developing mineral exploration projects through equity financings with institutional and retail investors. It also provides geological, engineering, environmental, and administrative services to its companies. Its predecessor, North American Metals, was founded in 1985 by the late Robert Hunter and chairman Robert Dickinson.

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