Base Metals Mining Companies

Copper, Nickel, Lead, and Zinc Mining

This Industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in developing the mine site, mining, and/or beneficiating (i.e., preparing) ores valued chiefly for their copper, nickel, lead, or zinc content. Beneficiating includes the transformation of ores into concentrates.

• Lead Ore and Zinc Ore Mining
• Copper Ore and Nickel Ore Mining

Other Metal Ore Mining

This industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in developing the mine site, mining, and/or beneficiating (i.e., preparing) metal ores (except iron and manganiferous ores valued for their iron content, gold ore, silver ore, copper, nickel, lead, and zinc ore).

• Uranium-Radium-Vanadium Ore Mining
  This Sub-Section includes: Carnotite, Pitchblende, Radium, Roscoelite, Tyuyamunite, Uranium, Uranium-radium-vanadium, Vanadium
• All Other Metal Ore Mining
  This Sub-Section includes: Antimony, Bauxite, Beryllium, Cerium, Chromium, Cinnabar, Cobalt, Columbium, Ferroalloy, Hafnium, Huebnerite, Iridium, Manganese, Manganite, Mercury, Microlite, Molybdenum, Monazite, Osmium, Palladium, Platinum, Psilomelane, Pyrolusite, Quicksilver, Rare earth, Rhodium, Rhodochrosite, Ruthenium, Rutile, Scheelite, Tantalite, Thallium, Thorite, Thorium, Tin, Titaniferous-magnetite, Titanium, Tungsten, Wolframite, Wulfenite, Zirconium

• African Pegmatite - African millers and miners of base minerals and manufacturers of various oxides.
• Afriore Limited - A mining, mineral exploration, and mineral resource development, company focused in Southern Africa with coal, diamonds, gold, titanium, and base metals projects.
• Asarco Exploration Company, Inc. - Focuses on the identification and acquisition of advanced gold, copper and silver exploration projects. Most expenditure is directed at projects in South America, Australia and Ireland.
• ASARCO Incorporated - Miner, smelter and refiner of copper and molybdenum in the United States and Peru.
• BHP Billiton Limited - Mines copper, iron, gold, and coal, and has proved oil reserves. Features investor, news, and customer centres, a section on sustainable development, and information on staff and employment. ( NYSE: BHP )
• CAMEC - CAMEC is an African mining, investment, development and trading company with offices in the UK and Africa. CAMEC's cobalt exploration, mining and processing activities are focused in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the world's richest cobalt region. CAMEC aims to be a major low cost producer of tantalite, an important industrial commodity particularly for the electronics industry.
• Cleveland-Cliffs Inc. - Iron ore mining and processing. Supplies North American steel industry.
• Climax Molybdenum GmbH - Molybdenum and by-products miner. Includes a descriptive and informative section on molybdenum.
• Coffs Harbour Rutile NL - Australian titanium minerals producer for downstream processing and zircon processor.
• Cominco Ltd. - Producer of copper, molybdenum, and germanium, as well as zinc and lead concentrates.
• Dowa Mining Co., Ltd - Japanese non-ferrous mining company active in exploration, mining, and processing of massive sulfide ores.
• Inmet Mining Corporation - International metal mining company, engaged in the exploration, development and mining of base and precious metals.
• Jukila Consultant - Geological consultant to mineral exploration industry. Gold and base metals exploration in South America, Europe and Saudi Arabia.
• Kariganur Mineral Mining Industry - Iron ore related minerals. Mining and processing in Hospet, Karnataka INDIA.
• Kennecott Utah Copper - Kennecott Utah Copper has largest open pit copper mine in the world with excellent safety road.
• The Kudremukh Iron Ore Company Limited - Indian mining and pelletization complex for iron ore.
• Latin American Copper Group - Base metal exploration throughout latin america, with emphasis on oxide copper in Chile.
• Molycorp - Producer of lanthanide products.
• Navdurga Minerals & Alloys Pvt. Ltd. - Indian manufacturers of Manganese dioxide powder and Manganous oxide powder to customer specifications.
• Phelps Dodge Mining Company - Producers of copper and molybdenum and a producer of continuous-cast copper rod.
• Resources International - Producer of iron ore.
• WMC Limited - International minerals producer of copper, uranium, alumina, nickel, fertilizers and gold. The company are also involved in exploration for new deposits of copper, gold, nickel and zinc deposits .