Base Metals Mining

Copper Ore and Nickel Ore Mining

This Industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in: (1) developing the mine site, mining, and/or beneficiating (i.e, preparing) copper and/or nickel ores; and (2) recovering copper concentrates by the precipitation, leaching, or electrowinning of copper ore.

• AMT International Mining Company - underground copper mining and exploration in southern Arizona.
• African Rainbow Minerals, (ARM) - Chislehurston South Africa - ARM is a niche-diversified, South African mining company with excellent long life, low operating assets in key commodities. We own ferrous metals, nickel, platinum and coal operations and hold a significant interest in gold through our shareholding in Harmony.
• Anglo American plc - London, UK - Anglo American is a global leader in mining and natural resources focused on adding value for shareholders, customers, employees and the communities in which the Group operates. The Group owns a well diversified range of high quality assets covering gold, platinum, diamonds, coal, ferrous and base metals, industrial minerals and paper and packaging, underpinned by considerable financial strength and technical expertise.
• Antofagasta Plc. - Chile - Our company has three business divisions: Mining, Transport and Water, being the first of them the most important. Antofagasta plc is one of the largest international copper producing companies in the industry. The Group's mining division, Antofagasta Minerals, is also actively involved in exploration particularly in Chile and Peru.
• Aur Resources Inc. - Toronto, Ontario, Canada - Aur Resources Inc. is a Canadian-based, international mining company active in the acquisition, exploration, development and mining of mineral properties with a strong emphasis on copper. Over 95% of Aur’s revenue comes from the production of copper at its Quebrada Blanca, Andacollo and Louvicourt Mines.
• Azco Mining, Inc. - copper mining based in Vancouver, Canada.
• BHP Billiton - Melbourne VIC, Australia - BHP Billiton is the world's largest diversified resources company.  BHP Billiton occupies industry leader or near industry leader positions in major commodity businesses, including aluminium, energy coal and metallurgical coal, copper, manganese, iron ore, uranium, nickel, silver and titanium minerals, and have substantial interests in oil, gas, liquefied natural gas and diamonds.
• Barrick Gold Corporation - Toronto, Canada - Barrick is a leading international gold mining company. Barrick has 27 operating mines, located in some of the world’s most prospective gold districts in North America, South America, Australia and Africa.  Barrick’s South America region consists of the Pierina and Lagunas Norte gold mines in Peru; the Veladero gold mine in Argentina; the Zaldívar copper mine in Chile; and the Pascua-Lama development project straddling the Argentina-Chile border.
• Brookmount Explorations Inc. - Vancouver, B.C., Canada - Brookmount Explorations Inc. is a Nevada-registered public company with its base in Vancouver, B.C., Canada. Brookmount’s principal resource property is situated in central Peru, 300 kilometres east of Lima along the geological trend hosting the prolific Arequipa Gold Deposit. The area is heavily mineralized, and for many years was an important Gold/Silver/Copper/Zinc-producing area.
• CAMEC - CAMEC is an African mining, investment, development and trading company with offices in the UK and Africa. CAMEC has recognised that it is in a strong position to capitalise on opportunities within the coal sector. 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's activities in Copper are currently focused on the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). CAMEC views gold exploration and production as a key element in its strategy. Although the current focus of exploration and production is in Mozambique, the DRC and Zimbabwe, the Company is looking at further projects across Africa. CAMEC aims to be a major low cost producer of tantalite, an important industrial commodity particularly for the electronics industry.
• CODELCO Chile - Chile - The operations that make Codelco the main copper producer in the world are carried out mainly through its Divisions, responsible for the exploitation of the ore deposits, the processing of the ore and the production of the metal and its subsproducts. Codelco has four mining divisions. They are all located in Northern and Central Chile; Codelco Norte Division, Salvador Division, Andina Division, El Teniente Division
• 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 copper project portfolio of Companhia Vale do Rio Doce (CVRD) consists of sulfide ore reservoirs, with relatively high copper and gold contents (Sossego, Salobo, Alemão, and Cristalino) and oxidized (Project 118), located in the mineral province of Carajás and distributed within a radius under 100 km of distance from the iron ore production facilities of the Company.
• Copper Ridge Explorations Inc. - copper exploration company based in the Tintina Gold Belt.
• Jubilee Mines NL - West Perth, Western Australia, Australia - Jubilee Mines NL is a mining and exploration company with a focus on nickel. Jubilee owns and operates the Cosmos Nickel Project in Western Australia.
• Kennecott Minerals Company - Salt Lake City, Utah, USA - Kennecott Minerals Company, headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah, develops, manages, operates, and participates in gold, silver, copper, and other base metal operations in the United States, Canada, and Mexico.
• Kennecott Utah Copper Corporation - Magna, Utah, USA - Kennecott Utah Copper is wholly owned by Rio Tinto, one of the leading mining companies in the world, which employs 34,500 people in 40 countries. Kennecott Utah Copper operates as a separate entity from our sister companies.
• Latin American Copper Group - specializes in oxide copper in Chile.
• MC Norilsk Nickel Group - Moscow, Russia - MC Norilsk Nickel Group produces nickel, copper, cobalt, palladium, platinum and other precious metals (gold, silver), selenium, tellurium, technical sulphur, hard coal and other materials for industrial needs.MMC Norilsk Nickel is the world’s largest producer of nickel and palladium and one of the largest producers of platinum.
• Montana Resources - Butte, Montana, USA - Montana Resources (MR) operates an open pit copper and molybdenum mine in Butte, Montana. The operation comprises the Continental Pit mine and a concentrator where tons of raw ore are processed into marketable form. MR serves an international market for these metals.
• Phelps Dodge Corporation - Phoenix, Arizona, USA - Phelps Dodge Corp. is one of the world's leading producers of copper. The company is a world leader in the production of molybdenum, and the largest producer of molybdenum-based chemicals and continuous-cast copper rod.
• Outokumpu - Espoo, Finland - Outokumpu is an international stainless steel and technology company. Our vision is to be the undisputed number one in stainless, with success based on operational excellence.
• Oxiana Limited - Melbourne VIC Australia - Oxiana is an international mining and exploration company listed on the Australian Stock Exchange. Oxiana owns and operates the Sepon gold and copper mines in Laos, the Golden Grove base and precious metals operation in Western Australia and is developing the Prominent Hill copper-gold mine in South Australia. Oxiana is also actively exploring in Laos, Thailand, China, Cambodia and Australia, with a strategy to expand our resource base in Australia, Asia and the Pacific.
• 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.
• Sally Malay Mining - Perth, Western Australia, Australia - Sally Malay Mining is one of the new breed of nickel sulphide producers to emerge from Western Australia in recent times.
• South Caradon Mine - regarding a disused copper mine in South East Cornwall.
• Uintah Mountain Copper Company - mining a natural red iron oxide ore deposit in the Uinta Mountains.
• Votorantim Metais - São Paulo - SP - Brazil - Votorantim Metais’ operations are focused on mining and metallurgy of zinc, nickel and long steel. The company’s activities in these markets are supported by a solid operational structure, which includes eight proprietary plants and mines, located in the states of São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Minas Gerais and Goiás, and in Lima, Peru, which employ more than 7,000 direct workers and 1,500 permanent indirect ones.
• 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.
• Xstrata Plc. - Zug, Switzerland - Xstrata is a major global diversified mining group, listed on the London and Swiss stock exchanges and based in Switzerland. Xstrata manages a diversified portfolio of metals and mining businesses with the single aim of delivering industry-leading returns for shareholders. The Group maintains a meaningful position in six major international commodity markets: copper, coking coal, thermal coal, ferrochrome, vanadium and zinc, with additional exposures to gold, lead and silver. Xstrata's operations span four continents and six countries: Australia, South Africa, Spain, Germany, Argentina and the UK