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Construction is underway at Anglo American's $454M, Skorpion Zn mine/refinery project in Namibia. Production is planned at 150K mt/yr Zn over a mine life of at least 15 yr. Startup [...]

MIM's George Fisher and Enterprise mines were officially opened on Aug. 30, 2000, by Queensland Premier Peter Beattie, marking substantial completion of the company's $A1B investment program at Mount Isa [...]

More zinc Outokumpu is extending its Tara zinc mine in Ireland to exploit the southwestern tip of the orebody. The company is investing some EUR 47 million into the operation, [...]

Noranda Inc. announced that its Bell-Allard zinc mine near Matagami, Quebec, has resumed underground operations, and expects the concentrator to begin production within days. Operations were suspended February 25 following [...]

Metalline Mining Co. announced the results of tonnage and grade calculations that were made on drill and channel samples from the oxide zinc mantos in the San Salvador, Encantada, and [...]

AME Mineral Economics has released a commodity analysis of the world lead-zinc industry entitled 'The Coming of the Phoenix.' According to the report, as of late 1998, the industrialized West [...]

Anglo American Corp., through its Erongo Mining & Exploration Co. subsidiary, has decided to retain its 40% interest in the $279M Skorpion zinc project following questions of the undertaking's viability. [...]

Paraibuna Zn smelter returned to design capacity of 94K-mt/yr Zn metal in December, when Brazil's federal government eased rationing of electricity in Minas Gerais. Production at Paraibuna was reduced by [...]

Power rationing now has reduced Paraibuna de Metais' zinc production to half of its 94K-mt/yr capacity. When power rationing first began in June, Paraibuna cut output by 13% to 81K-mt [...]