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References
- 1 2 Commonwealth Steel Products Ltd Newcastle Industrial Heritage Association
- 1 2 Australians in Company BHP 1985
- ↑ Comsteel Unanderra Illawarra Heritage Trail
- ↑ US licensing deal International Railway Journal October 1971 page 10
- ↑ Engineering giants sell joint venture Canberra Times 24 December 1985 page 11
- ↑ Smorgon Steel now Set to Acquire 100% of ANI Smorgon Steel 29 January 1999
- ↑ Arrium's MolyCop sold for $1.6 billion SBS World News 4 November 2016
- ↑ American Industrial Partners completes the acquisition of Molycop American Industrial Partners
- ↑ Who we are MolyCop 3 January 2017
