Profile of Natural Resources Companies

Oct. 6, 2011 - PRLog -- Here are some ideas about the natural resources companies that have been expanding this year.


Cliff Natural Resources



Cliffs Natural Resources Inc. (Cliffs), formerly Cleveland-Cliffs Inc, is an international mining and natural resources company.



The Company is a producer of iron ore pellets in North America, a supplier of direct-shipping lump and fines iron ore out of Australia, and a producer of metallurgical coal.



The Company’s operations are organized according to product category and geographic location: North American Iron Ore, North American Coal, Asia Pacific Iron Ore, Asia Pacific Coal and Latin American Iron Ore.



In North America, it operates six iron ore mines in Michigan, Minnesota and Eastern Canada, and two coking coal mining complexes located in West Virginia and Alabama.



Its Asia Pacific operations are comprised of two iron ore mining complexes in Western Australia, serving the Asian iron ore markets with direct-shipping fines and lump ore, and a 45 % economic interest in a coking and thermal coal mine located in Queensland, Australia.



Jaguar Mining Inc.

Jaguar Mining Inc. engaged in the acquisition, exploration, development and operation of gold producing properties at its 93,000-acre land base in the Iron Quadrangle region of Brazil, a greenstone belt located near the city of Belo Horizonte in the state of Minas Gerais.



Jaguar also acquired the 293,000-acre Gurupi Project in the state of Maranhao from Kinross Gold Corporation (Kinross). Through a joint venture with Xstrata plc (Xstrata), the Company is also engaged in gold exploration at a greenfield site in the northeast of Brazil covering 182,000 acres.



The rising gold price has helped many gold companies to expand their operations, with Brazil particularly benefiting from these trends.



Sociedad Quimica y Minera de Chile SA (SQM)



Speaking of Latin America, Chile is another country with many large and interesting natural resources companies.



Sociedad Quimica y Minera de Chile SA (SQM) is a Chilean producer of specialty plant nutrients and chemicals.



The Company’s activities are structured in four business units:



Specialty Plant Nutrition (SPN), comprising the production of organic fertilizers and nutritional solutions under the Ultrasol, Qrop and Speedfol brands.



Iodine, engaged in the extraction and production of iodine derivates; Lithium, specializing in the exploitation and production of lithium carbonate, lithium hydroxide and lithium metal, and Industrial Chemicals, including the production of such chemicals as sodium nitrate, potassium nitrate among others.



Through its subsidiaries and affiliates, the Company has operations established in South, Central and North America, Europe, Asia, Africa and Oceania. In addition, the Company’s products are distributed in more than 110 countries worldwide.



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