Copper Mining & Processing Industry

Copper Mining & Processing Company List

The Alpine Group, Inc.
The Alpine Group has experienced the peaks and valleys of various metals and wires businesses. The company's Exeon subsidiary specializes in the reclamation of metal and copper wires, and it...more
Benguet Corporation
Benguet Corporation, the Philippines' oldest mining company (dating to 1903), mines and processes gold, chromite, copper, and other minerals. Low prices for metals and minerals led Benguet to...more
BHP Billiton
Two heads -- or headquarters -- are better than one. Aussie minerals and oil company BHP Limited acquired UK miner Billiton plc in 2001. The result is a two-headquartered, dual-listed company that...more
Grupo Carso, S.A. de C.V.
Slim equals fat assets for Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim Helú. His sprawling conglomerate, Grupo Carso, owns more than 80% of Grupo Sanborns, which includes the...more
China National Gold Group Corporation
China National Gold Group is its country's largest gold producer, The state-controlled company mines and refines gold, silver, and copper, producing custom-designed gold and silver bars as well...more
Chugach Alaska Corporation
At the heart of Chugach Alaska Corporation is a vision of indigenous people running their own businesses on their own land. Chugach Alaska was formed following the activation of the Alaska Native...more
Dowa Holdings Co., Ltd.
Do you know about DOWA? Through its operating subsidiaries the company processes and sells copper, gold, silver, and other metals, supplying its smelters with ore from its mining ventures in Mexico....more
The Furukawa Electric Co., Ltd.
Furukawa Electric believes that you can't spare the rod and save the business. Founded in 1884, the company has five main operating segments: light metals (aluminum sheets and plates, and...more
Grupo IUSA, S.A. de C.V.
Ask not what Grupo IUSA does, but what Grupo IUSA does not do. Mexico's largest industrial conglomerate, the Peralta-family-owned venture has its arms in more than a dozen different industries...more
Layne Christensen Company
Layne Christensen cuts its way through the upper crust. The company provides drilling and construction services related to water, wastewater treatment, and mineral exploration....more
Grupo México S.A.B. de C.V.
Mexico's largest mining company, Grupo México is the world's #3 copper producer, behind Chile's Codelco and Freeport-McMoRan Copper &...more
Compañía de Minas Buenaventura S.A.A.
Through sheer concentration and might, Compañía de Minas Buenaventura extracts metals in the form of silver-lead, silver-gold, zinc, and lead-gold-copper concentrates. Gold accounts for about 50% of...more
Mitsubishi Corporation
In Japanese mitsubishi means "three diamonds," but Mitsubishi Corporation claims six jewels. The sogo shosha, or trading company, operates through seven main business groups: living...more
Mitsubishi Materials Corporation
With operations in copper, cement, and aluminum, Mitsubishi Materials is steeped in materialism. The company's Metals segment smelts copper and makes copper products (billets, cake, wire, balls)....more
Mitsui Mining and Smelting Company, Limited
Mitsui Mining and Smelting (known as Mitsui Kinzoku), a member of the Mitsui keiretsu, supplies nonferrous metals for industrial uses. Formed in 1950, the...more
Nippon Mining Holdings, Inc.
Nippon Mining Holdings is involved in mining and energy operations. Subsidiary Japan Energy is engaged in both upstream and downstream oil and gas activities as well as petrochemical manufacturing....more
Rio Tinto Limited
Rio Tinto is on the lookout for pay dirt. Rio Tinto Limited, one of the world's largest mining operations (along with BHP Billiton and...more
Rio Tinto plc
You aren't seeing double. Rio Tinto plc, one of the world's largest mining operations (behind BHP Billiton and Vale), is the British...more
Shanghai Alison Group Co., Ltd.
Alison may sound girly, but this company is involved in some pretty tough industries. Shanghai Alison Group, or Alison, makes steel pipe, petrochemicals, and specialty packaging. It also smelts...more
Shougang Concord International Enterprises Company Limited
Shougang Concord International trades in a variety of industries, although steel production is its bread and butter. Some 72% of revenues come from the manufacture of steel plates and products;...more

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