List of mining companies
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  • Adex Mining
  • Agnico-Eagle Mines
    Agnico-Eagle Mines
    Agnico-Eagle Mines Limited is a Canadian-based gold producer with operations in Canada, Finland and Mexico and exploration and development activities extending to the United States. Agnico-Eagle has full exposure to higher gold prices consistent with its policy of no-forward gold sales...

  • Alcan
    Alcan
    Rio Tinto Alcan Inc. is a Canadian company based in Montreal. It was created on November 15, 2007 as the result of the merger between Rio Tinto PLC's Canadian subsidiary, Rio Tinto Canada Holding Inc., and Canadian company Alcan Inc. On the same date, Alcan Inc. was renamed Rio Tinto Alcan Inc..Rio...

  • ALROSA
    Alrosa
    ZAO ALROSA , is Russia's largest diamond company. Alrosa is engaged in the exploration, mining, manufacture and sale of diamonds. The company's operations are located primarily in the Sakha Republic/Yakutsk region. Alrosa accounts for approximately 25% of the world's rough diamond supply and 97%...

  • Alumina Limited
    Alumina Limited
    Alumina Limited 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....

  • Aluminerie Alouette
    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 tonnes capacity per year, became the largest...

  • Americas Petrogas
    Americas Petrogas
    Americas Petrogas Inc is a Canadian based natural resource company focused on business opportunities in Latin America. It currently has operations in both Argentina and Peru. In Argentina, it is engaged in the exploration, development and production of oil and gas properties...

  • Anaconda Copper
    Anaconda Copper
    Anaconda Copper Mining Company was one of the largest trusts of the early 20th century. The Anaconda was purchased by Atlantic Richfield Company on January 12, 1977...

  • Anglo American (mining)
    Anglo American (mining)
    Anglo American plc is a global mining company headquartered in London, United Kingdom. It is a major producer of diamonds, copper, nickel, iron ore and metallurgical and thermal coal and the world's largest producer of platinum, with around 40% of world output...

  • Anglo Platinum
    Anglo Platinum
    Anglo Platinum Limited is the world's largest primary producer of platinum, accounting for about 38% of the world's annual. The company, based in South Africa, was previously called "Anglo American Platinum Corporation Limited". Anglo Platinum expects to produce approximately 2.9 million...

  • Asia Pacific Banking Investment Group APBIG
  • Asia Mining Development Executives
  • AngloGold Ashanti
    AngloGold Ashanti
    AngloGold Ashanti Limited is a global gold mining company. It was formed in 2004 by the merger of AngloGold and the Ashanti Goldfields Corporation.AngloGold Ashanti Limited is now a global gold producer with 21 operations on four continents...

  • Antam
  • Antofagasta Plc
    Antofagasta plc
    Antofagasta plc 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, Aguas Antofagasta in Chile, Tethian in Australia and other...

  • Aricom
    Aricom
    Aricom PLC is a London-based iron ore mining company with operations in Russia. The firm was effectively founded as a spin out from Peter Hambro Mining in 2003, listing on the London Stock Exchange and later becoming a member of the FTSE 250...

  • Asbestos Corporation Limited
  • Astra Mining
    Astra Mining
    Astra Resources PTY, LTD is an Australian mining company, the parent of Astra Mining, whose primary focus is to satisfy the expanding resource demands of the world’s largest urbanizing nations, China and India...

  • Aur Resources
    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...

  • Avalon Rare Metals
    Avalon Rare Metals
    Avalon Rare Metals Inc. is a mineral exploration and development company focused on rare metal deposits in Canada. Its flagship project, the 100%-owned Nechalacho Deposit, Thor Lake, Northwest Territories, is emerging as one of the largest undeveloped rare earth elements resources in the world...

  • Aditya Birla Group
    Aditya Birla Group
    The Aditya Birla Group is an Indian multinational conglomerate corporation headquartered in Mumbai, India. It operates in 33 countries with more than 133,000 employees worldwide...


B

  • Barrick Gold
    Barrick Gold
    Barrick Gold Corporation is the largest pure gold mining company in the world, with its headquarters in Toronto, Ontario, Canada; and four regional business units located in Australia, Africa, North America and South America...

  • Bard Ventures Company
    Bard Ventures Company
    Bard Ventures Ltd. is a Canadian-based mining company and is listed on the TSX Venture Exchange. It has mineral properties in British Columbia and is headquartered in Vancouver. The main focus is on molybdenum....

  • Bema Gold
    Bema Gold
    Bema Gold Corporation was a Vancouver, British Columbia based intermediate gold producer with operating mines and development projects in Russia, South Africa, Chile and Canada. Bema operated the Julietta Mine in Russia, the Petrex Mines in South Africa, was a 50% owner of the Refugio MIne in Chile...

  • Bharat Aluminium Company
    Bharat Aluminium Company
    Bharat Aluminium Company Ltd. is an Indian aluminium company. It was in the public sector until 2001, when it was taken over by Vedanta Resources, a company which is listed on the London Stock Exchange-History:...

  • BHP Billiton
    BHP Billiton
    BHP Billiton is a global mining, oil and gas company headquartered in Melbourne, Australia and with a major management office in London, United Kingdom...

  • Blaafarveværket
    Blaafarveværket
    Blaafarveværket in Modum, Norway, founded by King Christian VII of Denmark-Norway in the 1770s, became the largest industrial company of the country in the mid-19th century. The works mined cobalt ore and manufactured by smelting blue cobalt glass and cobalt blue pigment...

  • Blackfire Exploration
    Blackfire Exploration
    Blackfire Exploration Ltd. is an exploration and mining company based in Calgary, Alberta,Canada. The company holds mineral rights in British Columbia, Canada, and Chiapas, Mexico...

  • Bonanza Goldfields Corp.
  • Bougainville Copper
    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 . It was one of the world's largest open-pit mines. The Panguna mine dominated the economy of the island during the 1970s and...

  • Bre-X
    Bre-X
    Bre-X was a group of companies in Canada. A major part of the group, Bre-X Minerals Ltd. based in Calgary, was involved in a major gold mining scandal when it was reported to be sitting on an enormous gold deposit at Busang, Indonesia...

  • Breakwater Resources
    Breakwater Resources
    Breakwater Resources is mining company based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. On August 26 2011 the company was acquired by Nyrstar.-Current Operations:Breakwater operates four producing mines:*Myra Falls mine in British Columbia*Langlois mine in Quebec...


C

  • Cambior
    Cambior
    Cambior Inc. was a Canadian based international gold producer with operations, development projects and exploration activities in the Americas. Cambior’s shares traded on the Toronto and American stock exchanges under the symbol “CBJ”. Cambior’s warrants “CBJ.WT.C” traded on the TSX...

  • Canadian Salt Company
    Canadian Salt Company
    Founded in 1893, in Windsor, Ontario, with three employees of the Canadian Pacific Railway Company and was originally named The Windsor Salt Company. Within a few years, the operation was sold and became The Canadian Salt Company, Limited...

  • Canico Resource
    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...

  • Candente Copper
  • Cape Breton Development Corporation
    Cape Breton Development Corporation
    The Cape Breton Development Corporation, or DEVCO, was a Canadian federal government Crown corporation. It ceased operation on December 31, 2009, after being amalgamated with Enterprise Cape Breton Corporation ....

  • Carmeuse
    Carmeuse
    Carmeuse is a Belgian mining company which produces lime and limestone. The Carmeuse Group has production facilities in Europe, North America and Africa. Its head office is located in Louvain-la-Neuve and the company Chief Executive Officer is Rodolphe Collinet...

  • Chinalco
  • Coal & Allied Industries
  • Codelco
    Codelco
    CODELCO is the Chilean state owned copper mining company formed in 1976 from the foreign owned copper companies that were nationalised in 1971. The headquarters are in Santiago and the seven-man board of directors is appointed by the President of the Republic...

  • Companhia Vale do Rio Doce
    Companhia Vale do Rio Doce
    Vale S.A. Vale S.A. Vale S.A. (BM&F Bovespa: / , / , / , / , is an Brazilian diversified mining multinational corporation and one of the largest logistics operators in Brazil. In addition to being the second-largest mining company in the world, Vale is also the largest producer of iron ore,...

  • Compass Minerals
    Compass Minerals
    Compass Minerals is a leading producer of minerals, including salt, sulfate of potash specialty fertilizer, and magnesium chloride. Based in the Kansas City metropolitan area, the company provides bulk treated and untreated highway deicing salt to customers in North America and the United Kingdom...

  • Compass Resources
    Compass Resources
    Compass Resources NL is an Australian mining and mineral exploration company listed on the Australian Stock Exchange and currently in voluntary administration since 29 January 2009....

  • Consolidated Zinc
    Consolidated Zinc
    Consolidated Zinc was an Australian mining company from 1905 to 1962. The company's initial operations focused on extracting zinc from mine tailings of the Broken Hill Ore Deposit at Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia...

  • Cordero Mining Company
  • Cuprom
    Cuprom
    Cuprom is the sole producer of electrolytic copper, continuous cast copper rod and enameled wire in Romania and the largest in Eastern Europe .Cuprom refinery in Baia Mare has an annual production capacity of 40,000 tonnes of cathodes...

  • Crowflight Minerals
    Crowflight Minerals
    CaNickel Mining Limited is a junior mining company, headquarterd in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Crowflight Minerals is currently in the process of opening the Bucko Lake nickel mine near Wabowden, Manitoba, which would produce 1,000 tonnes per day of ore, which will be concentrated to 11.1 million...

  • Cyprus Mines Corporation
    Cyprus Mines Corporation
    The Cyprus Mines Corporation was an early twentieth century American mining company based in Cyprus. In 1914, Charles G. Gunther began prospecting in the Skouriotissa area after reading in ancient books that the island was rich in copper and noticing promising ancient Roman slag heaps in the area....

  • Coal India Limited
    Coal India Limited
    Coal India Limited is an Indian state-controlled coal company headquartered in Kolkata, West Bengal, India and the world's largest coal miner with revenue exceeding 60,245 Crore . It was formerly owned entirely by the Union Government of India, under the administrative control of the Ministry of...


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  • Dampier Salt
    Dampier Salt
    Dampier Salt is an Australian salt company located in Western Australia, with operations in Dampier, Port Hedland, and Lake MacLeod, with headquarters in Perth...

  • De Beers
    De Beers
    De Beers is a family of companies that dominate the diamond, diamond mining, diamond trading and industrial diamond manufacturing sectors. De Beers is active in every category of industrial diamond mining: open-pit, underground, large-scale alluvial, coastal and deep sea...

  • Debswana
    Debswana
    Debswana Diamond Company Ltd, or simply Debswana, is a giant mining company located in Botswana, and is the world's leading producer of diamonds by value. Debswana is a joint venture between the government of Botswana and the South African diamond company De Beers; each party owns 50 percent of...

  • Doe Run Company
    Doe Run Company
    Doe Run Resources Corporation is the largest integrated lead producer in North America and the largest primary lead producer in the western world...

  • Drummond Company
    Drummond Company
    Drummond Company, Inc. is a privately owned company based in Birmingham, Alabama, United States, involved in the mining and processing of coal and coal products. The company was founded in Jasper, Alabama in 1935 by H. E...

  • Dutch Gold Resources, Inc.

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  • Echo Bay Mines Limited
    Echo Bay Mines Limited
    The Echo Bay Mines Limited company was organized in 1964 to develop a silver deposit at Great Bear Lake, Northwest Territories, which became known as the Echo Bay Mine. The company leased the old Port Radium settlement from Eldorado Mining and Refining Limited and used the old camp and mill to...

  • Eldorado Gold
    Eldorado Gold
    Eldorado Gold Corporation is a Vancouver, British Columbia based company involved in the mining, exploration and development of gold properties in China, Brazil, Greece and Turkey....

  • Eldorado Mining and Refining Limited
    Eldorado Mining and Refining Limited
    The Eldorado Mining and Refining Limited company was originally organized in 1927 as Eldorado Gold Mines Limited to develop a gold mine in Manitoba. Its president Gilbert LaBine later found radioactive deposits at Great Bear Lake, Northwest Territories in 1930, which led to the development of the...

  • Empire Zinc Company
    Empire Zinc Company
    The Empire Zinc Company was a subsidiary of the New Jersey Zinc Company. It originally held claims in the Gilman Mining district in Colorado. From 1912 to 1915, the New Jersey Zinc Company acquired and consolidated the mines as the Eagle Mines and operated Empire Zinc Company as a subsidiary. It...

  • Energy Resources of Australia
    Energy Resources of Australia
    Energy Resources of Australia Ltd is a public company based in Australia. It is a subsidiary of the Rio Tinto Group which owns 68.4% of the company. The chairman is David Klingner and chief executive officer is Harry Kenyon-Slaney....

  • Eramet
    Eramet
    Eramet is a French multinational mining and metallurgy company, listed on the Euronext Paris exchange under the symbol ERA.The company produces non-ferrous metals and derivatives, nickel alloys and superalloys, and high-performance special steels....

  • Evraz

F

  • Falconbridge Ltd.
    Falconbridge Ltd.
    Falconbridge Limited was a Toronto, Ontario-based natural resources company with operations in 18 countries, involved in the exploration, mining, processing, and marketing of metal and mineral products, including nickel, copper, cobalt, and platinum. It was listed on the TSX and NYSE , and had...

  • Firestone Ventures
    Firestone Ventures
    Firestone Ventures Inc is a Canadian Mining company which explores a diverse range of mineral projects in western Canada and Guatemala. The Company's mineral holdings are focused on zinc, gold and uranium....

  • First Quantum Minerals
    First Quantum Minerals
    First Quantum Minerals Ltd. is a Vancouver, British Columbia based mining and metals company whose principal activities include mineral exploration, development and mining....

  • FNX Mining
    FNX Mining
    Quadra FNX Mining Ltd is a Vancouver, British Columbia-based company that produces and explores for copper, nickel, platinum, palladium, gold, cobalt, and molybdenum with operations in Nevada, Arizona, Chile, Greenland, and the Sudbury Basin, Ontario, Canada....

  • Freeport-McMoRan
    Freeport-McMoRan
    Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc., often called simply Freeport, is the world's lowest-cost copper producer and one of the world's largest producers of gold...


G

  • Gécamines
    Gécamines
    Gécamines, or La Générale des Carrières et des Mines, is a state-owned mining company in the Democratic Republic of Congo . Its principal products are copper , cobalt and zinc...

  • Glamis Gold
    Glamis Gold
    Glamis Gold Ltd. was a Reno, Nevada based gold producer with operations in the Americas. In 2006 they expected to produce 620,000 ounces of gold at a total cash cost of US$190 per ounce. They remained 100% unhedged....

  • Gold Fields
    Gold Fields
    Gold Fields Limited is a South African gold mining firm, one of the world’s largest, which is listed on both the Johannesburg Stock Exchange and the New York Stock Exchange ....

  • Gold Reserve Inc.
  • Goldcorp
    Goldcorp
    Goldcorp Inc. is a gold producer headquartered in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Goldcorp has 16 operations and development projects in 6 countries across the Americas....

  • GrowMax Agri Corp
    GrowMax Agri Corp
    GrowMax Agri Corp is a subsidiary of Americas Petrogas Inc , a Canadian based natural resource company. America’s Petrogas owns 80 percent of GrowMax, the remaining 20 percent is owned by the Indian Farmers Fertiliser Cooperative Limited...

  • Grupo México
    Grupo México
    Grupo México is the largest mining corporation in Mexico and the third largest copper producer in the world.Ferrocarril Mexicano , the company's rail transport division, operates the nation's largest rail fleet.-History:...


H

  • Harmony Gold (mining)
    Harmony Gold (mining)
    Harmony Gold 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 activities, including exploration, processing, smelting and...

  • Harry Winston Diamond Corporation
  • Hearst, Haggin, Tevis and Co.
    Hearst, Haggin, Tevis and Co.
    Hearst, Haggin, Tevis and Co., a company started in California in the 1850s and headed by San Francisco lawyer James Ben Ali Haggin with Lloyd Tevis and George Hearst, grew to be the largest private firm of mine-owners in the United States...

  • Hillsborough Resources Limited
  • Hollinger Mines
    Hollinger Mines
    The Hollinger Gold Mine was founded by Benny Hollinger in Timmins, Ontario, and in 1910 the company was incorporated by Noah Timmins and partners. The main Hollinger Mine operated from 1910 until 1968. During that period 65,778,234 tons were milled, producing 19,327,691 ounces of gold,...

  • Hochschild Mining
    Hochschild Mining
    Hochschild Mining plc is a leading British-based silver and gold mining business operating in North, Central and South America. It is headquartered in London and is a constituent of the FTSE 250 Index. The main shareholder is the peruvian businessman Eduardo Hochschild.-History:The company was...


K

  • Kazakhmys
    Kazakhmys
    Kazakhmys Plc is a UK-registered copper mining company whose main assets are located in Kazakhstan. Its headquarters are in London, United Kingdom. The headquarters of its main subsidiary, Kazakhmys Corporation, are located in the city of Karaganda, Kazakhstan...

  • Kenmare Resources
    Kenmare Resources
    Kenmare Resources plc is a mining company based in Ireland. It is listed on the Irish Stock Exchange and the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 250 Index.-History:...

  • Kennecott Utah Copper
    Kennecott Utah Copper
    Kennecott Utah Copper Corporation , a division of Rio Tinto Group, is a mining, smelting, and refining company. Its corporate headquarters are located in South Jordan, Utah, USA. Kennecott operates one of the largest open-pit copper mines in the world in Bingham Canyon, Salt Lake County, Utah. ...

  • KGHM Polska Miedz
    KGHM Polska Miedz
    KGHM Polska Miedź is one of the largest producers of copper and silver in the world. The mining & metallurgy company is based in Poland in Lubin. KGHM Polska Miedź S.A...

  • Kinross Gold
    Kinross Gold
    Kinross Gold Corporation is a Canadian-based gold mining company with a gold production guidance of 4.5 to 4.9 million gold ounces by 2015. Kinross owns mines and projects in Canada, the United States, Brazil, Chile, Ecuador, Russia, Ghana and Mauritania, employing approximately 7,500 people...

  • Korea General Magnesia Clinker Industry Group
    Korea General Magnesia Clinker Industry Group
    Korea General Magnesia Clinker Industry Group is a mining and heavy industrial corporate group headquartered in Pyongyang, North Korea. The company produces magnesia clinker, slightly burnt magnesia, chlorite, firebricks and fireproofing materials....

  • Korea General Zinc Industry Group
    Korea General Zinc Industry Group
    Korea General Zinc Industry Group is a North Korean mining and industrial group headquartered in Pyongyang. The group produces zinc, lead, base bullion, lead concentrates, zinc concentrates, cadmium, arsenic, zinc residues and copper concentrate for export and domestic use...


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  • La Pointe Mining Company
  • Lexam
    Lexam
    Lexam VG Gold is a North America gold exploration Company formed by the merger of Lexam Explorations, Inc. and VG Gold Corp. Principle prospects are in Canada, notably near the Dome Mine in northern Ontario near Timmons The Company, during gold exploration in the San Luis Valley, discovered an oil...

  • Lonmin
    Lonmin
    Lonmin plc , formerly Lonrho plc, is a producer of platinum group metals operating in the Bushveld Complex of South Africa. It is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index.-History:...

  • Lucara Diamond Corp
  • Luzenac Group
    Luzenac Group
    The Luzenac Group is a talc mining company headquartered in Toulouse, France. The company is the world's largest producer of talc, with mines and processing plants located in Europe, North America, Australia, and East Asia. The Luzenac Group has been a wholly owned subsidiary of the Rio Tinto...


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  • Maaden
    Maaden (company)
    MA'ADEN is a diversified mining company, active in gold base metals mining and infrastructure industry. Ma'aden was formed as a Saudi joint stock company on 23 March 1997 for the purpose of facilitating the development of Saudi Arabia’s mineral resources. It is the largest mining company in Saudi...

  • Magnum Prime Earth Resources
  • Martin Marietta Materials
    Martin Marietta Materials
    Martin Marietta Materials 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 behind Vulcan Materials Company. It is a leading U.S. producer of magnesia-based chemical products used as additives...

  • Massey Energy
    Massey Energy
    Massey Energy Company was a coal extractor in the United States with substantial operations in West Virginia, Kentucky and Virginia. By revenue, it was the fourth largest producer of coal in the United States and the largest coal producer in Central Appalachia...

  • Metallica Resources
    Metallica Resources
    Metallica Resources Inc. was a Canadian based mineral and gold mining company.Metallica Resources was a publicly held Canadian mineral exploration and development company with a geographic focus in the Americas. The Company had an ownership interest in a gold project at Cerro de San Pedro Mexico...

  • Minera Andes
    Minera Andes
    - Company Overview :Minera Andes Inc is a producer of gold and silver and an explorer of gold, silver and copper in Argentina. Rob McEwen is the company's CEO and largest shareholder .The company has three significant assets in Argentina:...

  • Minera Escondida
  • Mining Association of the United Kingdom
    Mining Association of the United Kingdom
    The Mining Association of the United Kingdom is a trade association for all kinds of mining undertaken by UK companies.-Function:It promotes and fosters the interests of the metals and mining industry in any part of the world and the corporations, companies, firms and persons engaged or interested...

  • Mount Lyell Mining and Railway Company
    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 Queenstown, Tasmania.Following consolidation of...

  • MSPL Limited
    MSPL Limited
    MSPL Limited, the flagship company of Baldota Group was founded in 1961. Today, it is one of the India’s leading iron ore mining companies and holds the distinction of being the country’s largest producer of wind power....


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  • NERCO
    NERCO
    NERCO was an American mining company headquartered in Portland, Oregon with interests in coal, natural gas, and oil. The company also had significant operations in gold and silver mining, and manufacture of gallium arsenide wafers....

  • New Jersey Zinc Company
    New Jersey Zinc Company
    The Horsehead Corporation , formerly the New Jersey Zinc Company, is an American producer of zinc and related materials.The New Jersey Zinc Company was for many years the largest producer of zinc and zinc products in the United States. The company thrived in the period from 1897 to 1966, at which...

  • Newcrest Mining
    Newcrest Mining
    Newcrest Mining Limited 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’s leading gold mining company...

  • Newmont Mining
    Newmont Mining
    Newmont Mining Corporation , 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. Holdings include Santa Fe Gold, Battle Mountain Gold, Normandy Mining, Franco-Nevada Corp and Fronteer Gold...

  • NIREX
    NIREX
    Nirex was a United Kingdom body set up in 1982 by the UK nuclear industry to examine safe, environmental and economic aspects of deep geological disposal of intermediate-level and low-level radioactive waste....

  • Noranda
  • NovaGold Resources
    NovaGold Resources
    NovaGold Resources Inc. is a mineral exploration, development, and mining company. NovaGold has 50% ownership of two of the world’s largest known undeveloped gold and copper-gold deposits...

  • Nevsun Resources
    Nevsun Resources
    Nevsun Resources Ltd. is a Canadian mining company headquartered in Vancouver, BC. It initially focused on the mining industry in North America; it then shifted its focus to mining in Africa, particularly Eritrea.-Mines:...


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  • Pan American Silver Corporation
    Pan American Silver Corporation
    Pan American Silver Corporation is a mining company in Canada. The company has mines and other projects in the USA, Mexico, Peru, Bolivia and Argentina....

  • Pacific Coast Borax Company
    Pacific Coast Borax Company
    The Pacific Coast Borax Company was a United States mining company founded in 1890 by the American borax magnate Francis "Borax" Smith, the "Borax King".-History:...

  • Palabora Mining Company
  • Peñoles
    Peñoles
    Peñoles , based in Mexico City, Mexico, is a subsidiary company 100 percent Mexican and owned by the private Grupo Bal. Peñoles is the second largest Mexican mining company, the first Mexican producer of gold, zinc and lead and the world leader in silver production. Peñoles is a company with active...

  • Peter Kiewit Sons'
    Peter Kiewit Sons'
    Kiewit Corporation, an employee-owned, 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 project in Hawaii, and building...

  • Peter Hambro Mining
  • Phelps Dodge
    Phelps Dodge
    Phelps Dodge Corporation was an American mining company founded in 1834 by Anson Greene Phelps and William Earle Dodge, Sr.. On March 19, 2007, it was acquired by Freeport-McMoRan and now operates under the name Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc.-History:...

  • Pilbara Iron
  • Polymetal
  • Polyus Gold
    Polyus Gold
    Polyus Gold is a Russian mining and metallurgy company primarily concerned with the production of gold. Polyus is the largest gold producer in Russia. Polyus is controlled by Russian businessman Mikhail Prokhorov's ONEXIM Group conglomerate and Suleiman Kerimov.In 1990 Polyus was restructured as...

  • Potash Corporation of Saskatchewan
    Potash Corporation of Saskatchewan
    The Potash Corporation of Saskatchewan Inc. , also referred to as PotashCorp, is a Canadian corporation based in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. The company is the world's largest potash producer and the third largest producers of nitrogen and phosphate, three primary crop nutrients used to produce...


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  • Reading Anthracite Company
    Reading Anthracite Company
    Reading Anthracite Company is a coal mining company based in Pottsville, Pennsylvania in the United States. It mainly mines anthracite coal in the Coal Region of eastern Pennsylvania....

  • Rio Tinto Alcan
  • Rio Tinto Coal Australia
    Rio Tinto Coal Australia
    thumb|[[ThyssenKrupp|Krupp]] twin-boom portal [[reclaimer]] at RTCA Kestrel Mine|500pxRio Tinto Coal Australia is an Australian coal mining organisation, and is part of the worldwide Rio Tinto Group. In Queensland, RTCA operates the Blair Athol, Hail Creek, Kestrel and Clermont mines...

  • Rio Tinto Group
    Rio Tinto Group
    The Rio Tinto Group is a diversified, British-Australian, multinational mining and resources group with headquarters in London and Melbourne. The company was founded in 1873, when a multinational consortium of investors purchased a mine complex on the Rio Tinto river, in Huelva, Spain from the...

  • Rockwell Diamonds
    Rockwell Diamonds
    Rockwell Diamonds is a mid-tier diamond mining and development company. The Company has an interest in several producing and exploration alluvial diamond properties in southern Africa. The stocks of the company trade on South African, Canadian, and American exchanges...

  • RSC Mining and Mineral Exploration Ltd.

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  • Saskatchewan Minerals
    Saskatchewan Minerals
    Saskatchewan Minerals Inc. is a privately held company located in Saskatchewan, Canada, that mines and processes sodium sulphate. Originally established as a crown corporation in 1947. Today the company is one of the largest producers of anhydrous sodium sulphate in North America with production...

  • Semafo
  • Sesa Goa
    Sesa Goa
    Sesa Goa is India's largest producer and exporter of iron ore in the private sector. For over five decades it has been engaged in the business of exploration, mining and processing of iron ore. In fiscal 2010, it produced 21.4 million tonnes and sold 20.5 million tonnes of iron ore...

  • Sherritt International
    Sherritt International
    Sherritt International is a Canadian energy company, based in Toronto, Ontario. It is involved in nickel and cobalt mining, thermal coal production, oil and gas exploration and production, and electricity generation...

  • Sibelco
    Sibelco
    Sibelco has over 245 production units worldwide and is the disputed market leader in the extraction, production and distribution of the main industrial minerals: quartz, cristobalite, nepheline syenite, plastic clay and olivine...

  • Sifto Canada
    Sifto Canada
    Sifto Canada is a salt mining and marketing company based in Canada, with its primary products being table salt, fine evaporated salt, water conditioning salt, agricultural salt, coarse salt, rock salt, and bulk salt...

  • Silver Standard Resources
    Silver Standard Resources
    Silver Standard Resources is a Vancouver based silver, zinc and tin producer that owns the largest silver mine in Argentina. In addition it engages in exploration activity throughout the America's and Australia...

  • Silver Wheaton
    Silver Wheaton
    Silver Wheaton is a pure play silver mining company, the largest in the business of silver streaming. It produces over 23 million ounces and sells over 20 million ounces of silver mined by other companies as a by product...

  • Silvercorp Metals
  • Solid Energy
    Solid Energy
    Solid Energy is the largest coal mining company in New Zealand and is a state owned enterprise of the New Zealand Government.The company was formed from the former government department State Coal Mines. It was then established as a state owned enterprise called Coal Corporation in 1987, and...

  • Solitario Exploration & Royalty
    Solitario Exploration & Royalty
    Solitario Exploration & Royalty is a Colorado-based explorer of mineral properties located in Peru, Brazil, Mexico and the US. The Company’s focus is on gold and silver, and has advanced projects with platinum, palladium, zinc and lead....

  • South Maitland coalfields
    South Maitland coalfields
    The South Maitland coalfields was the most extensive coalfield in New South Wales until the great coal mining slump of the 1960s. It was discovered by Lieutenant-Colonel Paterson's party when they were engaged in an exploratory visit to the Hunter River Valley during July 1801.Mention has been made...

  • Star Uranium
    Star Uranium
    Star Uranium is a Canadian resource company with its head office in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. The company is focused on the acquisition, exploration and development of uranium, diamond and other precious metal properties.- Properties :Uranium...

  • Store Norske Spitsbergen Kulkompani
    Store Norske Spitsbergen Kulkompani
    Store Norske Spitsbergen Kulkompani , or simply Store Norske, is a Norwegian coal mining company based on the Svalbard archipelago. It was formed in 1916, after a Norwegian purchase of the American Arctic Coal Company ....

  • Stroud Resources

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  • Teck Cominco
    Teck Cominco
    Teck Resources Limited known as Teck Cominco until late 2008, is a Canadian mining company. It was formed from the amalgamation of Teck and Cominco in 2001.-History:...

  • Tenke Mining
    Tenke Mining
    Tenke Mining Corporation was a mining company with head offices in Canada. The company's operations took place in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and in South America. Tenke Mining was based in Vancouver, British Columbia...

  • Thompson Creek Metals
    Thompson Creek Metals
    Thompson Creek Metals Company is a pure play molybdenum mining company, one of the world's largest with two operating mines , five mines in the developmental stage and a central processing facility in Pennsylvania...

  • Titanium Resources Group
  • Tiwest Joint Venture
    Tiwest Joint Venture
    The is a joint venture between Tronox Western Australia Pty Ltd and subsidiaries of Exxaro Australia Sands Pty Ltd. The Tiwest Joint Venture is a mining and processing company was established in 1988 to extract ilmenite, rutile, leucoxene and zircon from a mineral sands deposit at Cooljarloo, 14km...


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  • Vale
  • Vale Inco
  • Vedanta Resources
    Vedanta Resources
    Vedanta Resources plc is a global mining and metals company headquartered in London, United Kingdom. It is the largest mining and non-ferrous metals company in India and also has mining operations in Australia and Zambia. Its main products are copper, zinc, aluminium, lead and iron ore...

  • Votorantim Metais Ltda.
  • Vulcan Materials Company
    Vulcan Materials Company
    Vulcan Materials Company , based in Birmingham, Alabama is principally engaged in the production, distribution and sale of construction materials. Vulcan is the largest producer of construction materials, primarily gravel, crushed stone, and sand, and employs approximately 9,700 people at over 356...

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