Iron Ore Exploration, Beneficiation, and Extraction

Algoma Steel Inc. - Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, Canada -
Apex Minerals NL - Perth, Western Australia - Emerging as a new force in the Australian minerals industry.
Assmang Limited - Johannesburg, South Africa - Assmang Limited is a company incorporated in the Republic of South Africa to supply raw material to the world's steel mills and alloy plants. Assmang, jointly controlled by African Rainbow Minerals Limited and Assore Limited, currently has three operating divisions based on its three commodities, chrome, manganese and iron ore.
Aztec Resources Ltd - South Perth West Australia - Aztec is an Australian company, listed on the Australian Stock Exchange and London’s Alternative Investment Market (AIM), focused on becoming a significant iron ore producer. Aztec’s iron ore prospects are located in the North West of Western Australia, an area which hosts a number of world class iron ore projects. Aztec's 100%-owned Koolan Island iron ore project is in Yampi Sound, off the northern Kimberley coast of Western Australia.
BHP Billiton Iron Ore Pty Lt - Perth Western Australia - BHP Billiton Iron Ore and Boodarie Iron make up one of the world's leading suppliers of iron ore products and in 2001, shipped 71.3 million tonnes of ore and one million tonnes of briquettes to steel mills in Asia, Europe and Australia. Its operations include: Five mining operations, Port and processing facilities at Port Hedland, The Boodarie Iron hot briquetted iron plant, 696 kilometres of railway and a rail fleet of 48 locomotives and 2224 carriages
BHP Billiton - Melbourne VIC, Australia - BHP Billiton is the world's largest diversified resources company. We are one of the world's largest producers and marketers of export thermal coal, servicing the major power markets of Europe, Asia and the US.
Cleveland-Cliffs Inc. - Cleveland, Ohio, United States Of America - A Global Authority in Iron Mining - Cleveland-Cliffs is the largest producer of iron ore pellets in North America. Cliffs sells the majority of its pellets to integrated steel companies in the United States and Canada. The Company operates six iron ore mines located in Michigan, Minnesota and Eastern Canada that currently have the capacity to produce 37.5 million tons of iron ore pellets annually.
Companhia Vale do Rio Doce, (CVRD) - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - Companhia Vale do Rio Doce - CVRD, organized in 1942 is the largest diversified mining company in the Americas, a world leader in the iron ore and pellets market, the 2nd largest global producer of manganese and iron alloys, beside being the largest Logistic rendering service companies in Brazil.
Fortescue Metals Group Limited - South Hedland Western Australia - Fortescue Metals Group, the new force in iron ore. Fortescue Metals Group Limited has been developing the Pilbara Iron Ore and Infrastructure Project in its current guise since mid - 2003.
HLE Mining - A Stelco Company - Hibbing, Minnesota - HLE Mining is the mining asset management company of the Stelco Group of Companies.
Iron Ore Holdings Ltd - Perth, Western Australia - Iron Ore Holdings Ltd (IOH) was established in December 2003 and successfully listed on the ASX in May of 2005. The Company’s strategy is to prove up and mine commercial quantities of Direct Shipping Ore (DSO) on its tenements in the most prospective part of the Pilbara region, adjacent to BHPBilliton’s and Hamersley Iron’s Yandi and Yandicoogina mines.
Ivanhoe Mines Ltd. - Ivanhoe Mines is an international mining company with operations focused in the Asia Pacific region. Ivanhoe Mines key asset is the Oyu Tolgoi Project, the world's largest copper-gold development project, 80 km north of the China border. Ivanhoe also controls several newly discovered high-quality coal deposits on its approximately 112,000-sq.-km land holding in Mongolia.
Kudremukh Iron Ore Company Limited - Bangalore, India - Kudremukh Iron Ore Company Limited, a wholly owned Government of India Enterprise, was established in 1976 to develop the mine and plant facilities to produce 7.5 million tonnes of concentrate per year. The mine is located in the Western Ghats of Karnataka State in the Indian Subcontinent and the Pelletisation facilities at Mangalore, also in Karnataka.
Kumba Resources Limited - Pretoria West, South Africa - Kumba Resources Limited, formerly known as Iscor Mining until it split from its steel producing parent, Iscor Limited in 2001, boasts a portfolio of world class assets spanning three continents rich in mineral resources: Africa, Asia and Australia. Headquartered in Pretoria, South Africa, Kumba Resources is focused around four key commodities: iron ore (accounting for about 49% of revenue), coal (22%), base metals (9%) and, the newest, growing contributor, heavy minerals (19%).
Mittal Steel Company - Rotterdam, The Netherlands - Mittal Steel Company is the world’s most global steel company. Formed from the combination of Ispat International N.V. and LNM Holdings N.V., the company has operations in fourteen countries, on four continents, namely: Algeria, Bosnia, Canada, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Kazakhstan, Macedonia, Mexico, Poland, Romania, South Africa, Trinidad & Tobago and USA. Mittal Steel encompasses all aspects of modern steelmaking, to produce a comprehensive portfolio of both flat and long steel products to meet a wide range of customer needs. It serves all the major steel consuming sectors, including automotive, appliance, machinery and construction.
Mount Gibson Iron Limited - Perth, Western Australia - Mount Gibson Iron Limited was established as a specialist iron ore exploration company in 1996 and listed on the Australian Stock Exchange in January 2002. The Company’s first mine at Tallering Peak commenced exporting direct shipping grade hematite to China in February 2004.
Murchison Metals Limited (MML) - West Perth Western Australia - Murchison Metals Limited is an emerging Australian iron ore producer listed on the Australian Stock Exchange. Murchison Metals is the owner of the world class Jack Hills iron ore deposit located in the Mid West region of Western Australia. Jack Hills boasts a significant high grade iron ore resource suitable for low cost open pit mining.
Orissa Mining Corporation Limited - Orissa, India - The Orissa Mining Corporation Limited (OMC) was jointly established by the Union and State Government in the first decade of the country's independence. It was the first public sector undertaking in Orissa. By 1962, OMC became wholly state owned. OMC has been steadily adding to the corporation's mineral inventory. Today, OMC possesses a reserve of 400 million tons of iron ore, 19 million tons of manganese ore, 28 million tons of chromite, 220 million tons of bauxite, 19 million tons of limestone and other minerals. OMC is acting as facilitating agent for development of bauxite properties.
Rio Tinto Limited - Melbourne, Australia - Rio Tinto is a world leader in finding, mining and processing the earth's mineral resources. Major products include aluminium, copper, diamonds, energy products (coal and uranium), gold, industrial minerals (borax, titanium dioxide, salt, talc and zircon), and iron ore.
Severstal - Moscow, Russia - Severstal is the principal operating company within a major Russian industrial holding group, under common control of a single shareholder, which has assets in metallurgy, mining, automobile making, machinery, transportation, banking, insurance, woodworking and other businesses. The Russian Mining Operations include two iron ore and two coking coal complexes, the majority of which are located in Russia's Northwest region.
Stelco Inc. - Hamilton, Ontario, Canada - Stelco Inc. is an Ontario-based industrial group and one of Canada's leading steel producers.
Territory Iron Limited - West Perth, Western Australia - The Company controls or has interests in tenements which have potential to produce significant amounts of iron ore for the export market. Iron ore was produced and exported up until 1974 from the old Frances Creek mining centre within the Frances Creek Project area, when flooding and consequent damage to infrastructure forced closure.
United States Steel Corporation - Pittsburgh, Pennsylviana, United States Of America - U. S. Steel, headquartered in Pittsburgh is the largest fully integrated steel producer in the United States. It manufactures and sells a wide variety of steel mill products, coke and taconite pellets and is engaged in a number of diversified businesses.