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Anglo-Norwegian engineering and construction Group Kvaerner has been awarded a weak acid leach project by Iscor Limited, located at Iscor's zinc refinery, at Zincor in Springs, South Africa. The contract [...]

It is now nearly six months since the startup of the giant Antamina copper-zinc mine in Peru. Although the operation is only scheduled to commence full commercial production in 2002, [...]

Vancouver-based Consolidated Global Minerals Ltd (CGM) has been granted by the Government of Tunisia a three-year option on two operating zinc-lead mines in the North African country. The mines are [...]

Brazil's largest zinc producer, Cia Mineira de Metais, will bring 50,000 t/y of new zinc production capacity on stream from October 15. The company, part of the Votorantim group, has [...]

* Ivernia West Inc., 50% -owner of the Lisheen zinc mine in Ireland, has reported a net loss for the six months to June 30, 2001 of US$11.6 million (this [...]

GRD Minproc Ltd has successfully bid for the tender to design, construct and commission the proposed 500,000 t/y concentrator at Kagara Zinc's Mt Garnet project in northern Queensland. According to [...]

More than 3,000 participants from 26 countries attended the 25th Mining Convention organised by Peru's Institute of Mining Engineers in the southern city of Arequipa last week. The convention had [...]

MIM Holdings Ltd is to sell its Avonmouth (UK) and Duisberg (Germany) zinc smelters, following poor performance by the Avonmouth operation during the 12 months to June 30, 2001. Vince [...]

The Australian zinc producer Pasminco has announced that it intends to sell its Australian mining assets, and will henceforth concentrate on smelting and [...]

Igor Nozdrin, executive director of the Belovo zinc plant in Russia, says that the facility is still looking for a buyer, after three potential purchasers withdrew from the sale. The [...]

* Australian-listed Union Capital Ltd has extended the closing date of the initial public offering (IPO) in its subsidiary Union Zinc Ltd to September 7, and altered the terms in [...]

Perth-based Kagara Zinc Ltd has selected Cardross Pty Ltd as the mining contractor for the Mt Garnet zinc project in northern Queensland. Cardross's appointment is subject to project financing, approval [...]

A strike at the zinc refinery at Cajamarquilla in Peru has ended, two weeks after it began, and about six weeks after the end of a ten-day strike over the [...]

The chairman of Hindustan Zinc Ltd, K.V.K. Seshavataram, has confirmed the planned closure of several mines and a smelter, and he noted that the process has already begun with the [...]

Cominco Ltd has announced that it will extend the scheduled summer shutdown at its Trail refinery in British Columbia by one month in order to provide more power for sale [...]

Union workers at Big River Zinc's 90,000 t/y capacity refinery at Sauget, Illinois, have voted to approve the bulk of terms for a new three-year labour contract. Some productivity items [...]

Meanwhile at the Wagga Tank polymetallic project near Cobar, also in New South Wales, GCR's jointventure partner, Australian zinc producer Pasminco, has renegotiated the jointventure agreement to incorporate a larger [...]

Volcan Cia Minera SA, one of the world's top five zinc producers, has decided to invest US$6 5 million in Paragsha, its largest in mine, in Peru. The company invested [...]

Pasminco believes that the conveyor fire that briefly idled its Tasmanian smelter (MJ, December 1, 2000, p.435) cost it the output of no more than 15,000 t of zinc. The [...]

Last Friday, a burst of short covering enlivened the otherwise dull markets on the LME. The activity, in anticipation of the return to work in the US following its Thanks [...]

* Kazzinc, a zinc producer owned by Swiss-based trading house Glencore, is to develop two new zinc deposits -- Novoleningorsk and Obruchevsky -- over the next five years. The Novoleningorsk [...]

The Finnish metals and technology group, Outokumpu Oyj, has signed a letter of intent to purchase Norzink AS, a Norwegian zinc smelting and refining company, currently owned on a 50:50 [...]

Having already supplied two tank house cranes to Asturiana de Zinc, Austrian specialist crane producer, Kunz recently received a further order from the company for another two fully automatic units. [...]

John Chadwick visited Asarco's aging, but far from past it, mechanised room and pillar mines A sarco is of course now part of Grupo Mexico and has significantly contributed to [...]

Vancouver-based Copper Ridge Explorations Inc. has signed a letter of intent with Billiton Metals Canada Inc. for the joint evaluation and possible development of the Howards Pass zinc deposit in [...]

* The Privatisation Agency of Bulgaria has confirmed that a management-run company has bought an 80% stake in the country's KTZM lead-zinc smelter for $14.6 million. The new company, KTZM [...]

SNC-Lavalin Engineers and Constructors, an affiliate of SNC-Lavalin Group, has been awarded a contract, worth approximately $35 million, by Hudson Bay Mining and Smelting (HBMS) to provide basic engineering, detailed [...]

Canadian-listed Shoreham Resources, is pursuing the acquisition of an operating zinc mine and related facilities located north of the city of Hechi in China's Guangxi province. The mine is currently [...]

Toho Zinc has agreed to take 10,000 t/y (dry weight) of concentrates from the Antamina copper-zinc project in Peru. The Japanese company processes about 30,000 t/y at its plants, and [...]

Dublin-based Ennex International has signed a contract for a basic engineering study and turn-key proposal for the Shaimerden zinc project in Kazakhstan with Union Miniere Engineering of Belgium and Tecnidas [...]

The first stage of a large scale investment programme at the Sometra lead-zinc smelter, 240 km northeast of Bucharest, Romania, was completed recently. The Athens-based Mytilineos Group has invested US$3 [...]

The plans of the Cogefin consortium to purchase the Pertusola Sud zinc smelter in southern Italy have been thrown into doubt after the European Union announced that it has begun [...]

John Chadwick looks at Cominco's achievements at Red Dog Outside Russia, Cominco is probably the world's most experienced Arctic miner. It has two mines in this region. Polaris (zinc-lead), the [...]

The net earnings for Hindustan Zinc Ltd of India for the December 2001 quarter, at Rs36.9 million (US$1 = Rs48.53), were almost 95% lower than in the corresponding period of [...]

Nascent Australian zinc producer Kagara Zinc has signed an off-take agreement for 70,000 t/y of zinc concentrates with Sun Metals Corp., operator of the Sun Metals zinc refinery in Townsville [...]

* Pasminco Ltd has confirmed that it is to sell its US assets, namely the Clarksville electrolytic zinc plant, and the Gordonsville and Clinch Valley mines, all located in Tennessee. [...]

India's state-owned zinc producer, Hindustan Zinc Ltd, has achieved a total of 1,600 job reductions in a recent round of voluntary redundancies. Workers in the company's Zawar, Debari, Vizag, Agnigundala [...]

The Canadian diversified mining group Teck Cominco Ltd has signed a memorandum of understanding with Paranapanema SA of Brazil giving Teck Cominco exclusive negotiating rights for the acquisition of Paraibuna [...]

Australian zinc producer Western Metals Ltd has successfully negotiated a second deferral on a US$18.75 million debt repayment that was originally due on November 1 (MJ, October 26, p.328). The [...]

Consolidated Broken Hill Ltd (CBH) has secured a Japanese partner in its bid to integrate the mining assets at the famous Broken Hill mining camp in New South Wales. CBH [...]

The Indian Government has been thwarted in its attempt to privatise Hindustan Zinc Ltd, the country's largest lead and zinc producer, through the sale of a 26% controlling interest. As [...]

* The board of Aurora Gold Corp. has advised shareholders not to accept an increased takeover offer from Silvara Pty, a subsidiary of Tomorrow plc. Silvara made its original offer [...]

Troubled Australian zinc producer Western Metals Ltd has successfully negotiated an extension to the first payment due on a US$75 million bond on November 1. As a result, the US$18.75 [...]

This year Outokumpu celebrates the 50th anniversary of its flash smelting technology and this is the basis for 1999 being celebrated throughout the group as an Outokumpu Technology Jubilee year. [...]