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Mining
Mining is the extraction of valuable minerals or other geological materials from the earth, usually from an ore body, vein or (coal) seam. Materials recovered by mining include base metals, precious metals, iron, uranium, coal, diamonds, limestone, oil shale, rock salt and potash. Any material that...
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Hamersley Iron
Pilbara Iron is a wholly owned subsidiary of the multinational Rio Tinto Group, that manages assests for Hamersley Iron Pty Ltd, a wholly owned subsidiary of Rio Tinto, and Robe River Iron Associates, an unincorporated joint venture between Rio (53%...
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- 2004
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Bethlehem Steel
The Bethlehem Steel Corporation (1857–2003), based in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, was once the second-largest steel producer in the United States, after Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania-based U.S. Steel. After a decline in the U.S. steel industry and...
Date founded:
- 1857
BHP Billiton Ltd.
BHP Billiton is the world's largest mining company. It was created in 2001 by the merger of Australia's Broken Hill Proprietary Company (BHP) and the UK's Billiton, which had a Dutch and South African background. The result is a dual-listed company...
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Chevron Corporation
Chevron Corporation (NYSE: CVX) is an energy company. Headquartered in San Ramon, California, USA, and active in more than 180 countries, it is engaged in every aspect of the oil and gas industry, including exploration and production; refining,...
Date founded:
- 1879
Phelps Dodge
Phelps Dodge Corporation was an American mining company founded in 1834 by Anson Greene Phelps and William E. Dodge. On March 19, 2007, it was acquired by Freeport-McMoRan and now operates under the name Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc.
Initially...
Date founded:
- 1834
Freeport-McMoRan
Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc., (FMCG, NYSE: FCX) often called simply Freeport, is the world's lowest-cost copper producer and one of the world's largest producers of gold. It was formerly based in New Orleans, Louisiana but recently moved its...
Date founded:
- 1988
Weyland-Yutani
Weyland-Yutani is a fictional corporation in the motion picture Alien and its sequels, often referred to simply as "The Company". It is one of the corporations that runs the human colonies outside the solar system through the Extrasolar Colonization...
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Barrick Gold
Barrick Gold Corporation (TSX: ABX, NYSE: ABX) is the largest pure gold mining company in the world, with its headquarters in Toronto, Ontario, Canada; and four regional business units (RBU's) located in Australia, Africa, North America and South...
Date founded:
- 1983
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Aber Diamond
Harry Winston Diamond Corporation (TSX: HW, NYSE: HWD) formerly known as Aber is a Toronto, Canada specialist diamond mining and retail company.
The company holds a 40% stake in the Diavik Diamonds Project. Production at the Diavik Diamond Mine,...
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Agnico-Eagle Mines
Agnico-Eagle Mines Limited (TSX: AEM, NYSE: AEM) is a Toronto based gold mining company, with current gold production located at the LaRonde and Goldex mines in Quebec and the Kittilä mine in Finland. The company has further projects located in...
Aur Resources
Aur Resources Inc. was a Toronto, Ontario, Canada, based, international mining company active in the acquisition, exploration, development and mining of mineral properties. Aur has three producing mining operations and derives approximately 95% of...
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Canico Resource
Canico Resource Corp. is a Vancouver, British Columbia based junior resource company focused on the development of the Onça-Puma nickel laterite project located in Para State, Brazil. This is a large high grade, open- pittable deposit which is one...
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Eldorado Gold
Eldorado Gold Corporation (TSX: ELD) is a Vancouver, British Columbia based company involved in the mining, exploration and development of gold properties in China, Brazil, Greece and Turkey.
Eldorado gold is also the first North American company to...
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First Quantum Minerals
First Quantum Minerals Ltd. (TSX: FM) is a Vancouver, British Columbia based mining and metals company whose principal activities include mineral exploration, development and mining.
First Quantum's common shares are listed for trading on the...
Date founded:
- 1996
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FNX Mining
FNX Mining Company Inc. (TSX: FNX) is a Toronto, Ontario based company that produces and explores for nickel, copper, platinum, palladium, gold and cobalt in the Sudbury Basin, Ontario, Canada.
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Bougainville Copper
Bougainville Copper Ltd is an Australian copper, gold, and silver mining company that operates the Panguna open cut mine on the island of Bougainville in Papua New Guinea (PNG). It was one of the world's largest open-pit mines. The Panguna mine...
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Martin Marietta Materials
Martin Marietta Materials (NYSE: MLM) is in the aggregate, chemical, and composite material business. It is the second largest producer of crushed stone, sand, and gravel in the United States. It is a leading U.S. producer of magnesia-based chemical...
Aluminerie Alouette
Aluminerie Alouette is an aluminum manufacturing company based in Sept-Îles, Quebec, Canada, on the North Shore of the Gulf of St. Lawrence.
With the successful start-up of a major expansion in 2005, the Alouette Aluminum Smelter, at 550,000 metric...
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Rio Tinto Group
The Rio Tinto Group is a diversified, multinational mining and resources group with headquarters in London, England and Melbourne, Australia. The company was founded in 1873, when a multinational consortium of investors purchased a mine complex on...
Date founded:
- 1873
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Peter Kiewit Sons'
Kiewit Corporation, a private company, is a Fortune 500 contractor based in Omaha, Nebraska. It is one of the largest contractors in the world. Recent projects have included several bridge retrofittings in the San Francisco Bay Area, Interstate H-3...
Date founded:
- 1884
Newmont Mining
Newmont Mining Corporation (NYSE: NEM), based in Denver, Colorado, USA, is one of the world's largest producers of gold, with active mines in, Nevada, Indonesia, Australia, New Zealand, Ghana, and Peru. Some smaller operations include Bolivia,...
Date founded:
- 1916
Hearst, Haggin, Tevis and Co.
Hearst, Haggin, Tevis and Co., a company started in California in the 1850s and headed by George Hearst, grew to be the largest private firm of mine-owners in the United States. Hearst himself acquired the reputation of being the most expert...
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VEBA
VEBA AG (originally from Vereinigte Elektrizitäts- und Bergwerks Aktiengesellschaft, i.e. "United Electricity and Mining Corporation") was a German energy company. VEBA was founded in 1929 as a holding company owned by the state of Prussia, and was...
Date founded:
- 1929
Tenaris
Tenaris (BIT: TEN, NYSE: TS, BMV: TS, MERVAL:TS) is a subsidiary company of the Argentine group Techint. Is a global manufacturer and supplier of seamless and welded steel pipe products and provider of pipe handling, stocking and distribution...
Date founded:
- 2001
Downer EDi
Downer EDI (ASX: DOW)is an Australian Top-100 company that provides comprehensive engineering and infrastructure management services to the public and private transport, energy, infrastructure, communications and resources sectors, across Australia,...
WMC Resources
WMC Resources Limited was an Australian diversified mining and fertilizer company formerly listed on the Australian Stock Exchange. WMC was an acronym for Western Mining Corporation. It was delisted on 29 June 2005 following a successful takeover by...
Date founded:
- 2003
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Alumina Limited
Alumina Limited ASX:AWC NYSE: AWC is a public company listed on the Australian and New York Stock Exchanges. It was formed in 2003 in a demerger from Western Mining Corporation, and is one of the largest companies on the ASX.
Alumina's only business...
Date founded:
- 2003
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Anglo American
Anglo American PLC (LSE: AAL, JSE: ANGLO), (Pink Sheets (OTC)|AAUKY) is a multi-national mining company, founded in South Africa as a mining enterprise but now extending into other areas. Natural resources remains the focus of its operations. Its...
Date founded:
- 1917
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Kennecott Utah Copper
Kennecott Utah Copper Corporation (KUCC), a division of Rio Tinto Group, is a mining, smelting, and refining company. Its corporate headquarters are located in Magna, Utah, USA. Kennecott operates one of the largest open-pit copper mines in the...
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SUAL Group
Siberian-Urals Aluminium Company (Russian: Сибирско-Уральская Алюминиевая Компания), commonly known as SUAL (Russian: СУАЛ), is a fully vertically integrated aluminium company that ranks amongst the world's top ten aluminium producers. It comprises...
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Royal Oak Mines
Royal Oak Mines Incorporated was a gold mining company, founded in 1990 by Margaret "Peggy" Witte (now known as Margaret Kent) in Kirkland, Washington.
The company held numerous gold and base metal properties in Canada, including the Giant Mine in...
Date founded:
- 1990
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Teck Cominco
Teck Resources Limited (TSX: TCK, NYSE: TCK) known as Teck Cominco until late 2008, is a Canadian mining company. It was formed from the amalgamation of Teck and Cominco in 2001.
Cominco started in 1906 as The Consolidated Mining and Smelting...
Date founded:
- 1906
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Antofagasta plc
Antofagasta plc (LSE: ANTO) is a Chilean business that operates in various sectors of the economy. It is one of the most important conglomerates of Chile with equity participation in Antofagasta Minerals, the railroad from Antofagasta to Bolivia,...
Date founded:
- 1888
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Newcrest Mining
Newcrest Mining Limited (ASX: NCM) engages in the exploration, development, mining and sale of gold and gold-copper concentrate. Newcrest is an Australian based Company which initially incorporated in Victoria in 1980. Today it has become Australia...
Date founded:
- 1921
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Companhia Vale do Rio Doce
Vale S.A. (BM&F; Bovespa VALE3 / VALE5, NYSE: VALE, Latibex: XVALP / XVALO), formerly Companhia Vale do Rio Doce (CVRD), is a diversified mining multinational corporation and one of the largest logistics operators in Brazil. In addition to being the...
Date founded:
- 1942
Caemi
Caemi Mineração e Metalurgia S.A. was a major Brazilian mining holding company that ceased to exist in December 2006 after it was merged into Vale. Caemi means Companhia Auxiliar de Empresas de Mineração.
The company owned iron ore mines in the so...
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Hindalco Industries
Hindalco Industries is India's largest Aluminium manufacturing Company and is a subsidiary of the Aditya Birla Group. It is run by one of the world's youngest billionaires, Mr. K.M. Birla.
The company has annual sales of $ 5 billion and employs 13...
Date founded:
- 1962
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Orkla Group
Orkla Group (OSE: ORK) is a Norwegian industrial conglomerate operating in the Nordic region, Eastern Europe, Asia and the US. The company's main divisions are branded consumer goods, aluminium solutions, materials, associates and financial...
Date founded:
- 1654
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Mount Lyell Mining and Railway Company
Mount Lyell Mining and Railway Company was a Tasmanian mining company formed on the 29 March 1893, most commonly referred to as Mount Lyell. Mount Lyell was the dominant copper mining company of the West Coast from 1893 to 1994, and was based in...
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Essar
The Essar Group (BSE: 500630), is a multinational conglomerate in the sectors of Steel, Energy, Power, Communications, Shipping Ports & Logistics, and Construction. The Group's annual revenues were over USD 14 billion in FY08-09.
Essar began as a...
Iron Ore Company of Canada
Iron Ore Company of Canada (often abbreviated to IOC) is a Canadian-based producer of iron ore. The company was founded in 1949 from a partnership of Canadian and American M.A. Hanna Company. It is now owned by a new consortium, including the...
Date founded:
- 1949
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Potash Corporation of Saskatchewan
The Potash Corporation of Saskatchewan Inc. (TSX: POT, NYSE: POT), today generally referred to as PotashCorp, is a Canadian corporation based in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. The company is the world's largest potash producer and the second and third...
Date founded:
- 1975
National Aluminium Company
National Aluminium Company Limited, abbreviated as 'NALCO', (incorporated 1981) has units all over India at places like Angul and Damanjodi. It was incorporated as a public sector enterprise of the Government of India in 1981.
Today, it is Asia's...
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Compass Minerals
Compass Minerals International (NYSE: CMP) is the second-leading salt producer in the United States and largest in the United Kingdom. Most of the salt produced is sold for highway de-icing. The company owns the world's largest salt mine in Goderich...
Harmony Gold
Harmony Gold (NYSE: HMY) is the third largest gold mining company in South Africa, the 12th largest in the world and the 5th largest gold producer in the world . Harmony and its subsidiaries conduct underground and surface gold mining and related...
Pacific Coast Borax Company
The Pacific Coast Borax Company (PCB) was a United States mining company founded in 1890 by the American borax magnate Francis Marion Smith. The company established and aggressively developed the 20 Mule Team Borax trademark in order to promote the...
Date founded:
- 1890
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Gold Reserve
Gold Reserve Inc. (AMEX: GRZ, TSX: GRZ) is a gold mining company with operations and mining property in Bolivar State, Venezuela.
Founded in 1956, Gold Reserve Inc. is now headquartered in Spokane, Washington. The company has about ten employees at...
Date founded:
- 1956
