Precious Metals Mining & Processing Industry
Precious Metals Mining & Processing Company List
- 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
- 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
- Chow Sang Sang Holdings International Limited
- Chow Sang Sang hopes to accessorize residents of Hong Kong and mainland China. The company makes and sells necklaces, bracelets, watches, diamonds, and other shiny luxuries through about 100 Chow...more
- Contran Corporation
- Contran is a holding company that owns stakes of varying sizes in subsidiaries such as Valhi, Inc. (a publicly traded company about 95% controlled by Contran), which...more
- Cookson Group plc
- Cookson is a captain of the materials industry. The 300-year-old company, which began as a provider of lead for paint, has grown into a leading supplier to the electronics industry. Cookson's...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
- Heraeus Holding GmbH
- Precious metals are priority at Heraeus Holding. The company's largest subsidiary is precious metals trader W.C. Heraeus, which also processes precious and specialty metals into products used in the...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
- 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
- Sandvik Aktiebolag
- When it comes to machine tools, Sandvik knows the drill. The company makes a wide array of tools for drilling holes in just about anything. Its cemented-carbide cutting tools are used by the...more
- Teck Resources Limited
- Teck Resources really digs zinc. And coal. And copper. Its Red Dog mine in Alaska holds some of the world's largest zinc reserves. The company's coal business operates through subsidiary...more
- Toho Zinc Co., Ltd.
- Getting the lead (and zinc) out is paramount to Toho Zinc. The company is a leading Japanese producer of zinc and lead. The bulk of Toho Zinc's sales are from its smelting and refining operations,...more
