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The primary driver for injecting zinc is the opportunity to obtain dose rate reductions. In other cases, zinc injection is part of a plant's overall materials reliability programme aimed at [...]

British and German electroplaters compared In a study to determine whether structural characteristics such as size of subcontract metal finisher and difference in customer size to finisher size play any [...]

Pillar extraction in Vertical Crater Retreat mining is the key to productivity and future production. The Rajpura Dariba mine of Hindustan Zinc Ltd (HZL) is situated about 80 km north-east [...]

Closed temporarily but now pressing ahead with expansion plans under new ownership This year has been one of significant changes for Real de Angeles, the world's second largest open pit [...]

While rising copper prices have attracted most of the headlines in recent years, the cost of zinc is also hitting new heights, according to an article published in the May [...]

Vancouver-based Copper Ridge Explorations Corp. has received assay results from a recently-completed drilling programme at the Howards Pass zinc-lead property in the Yukon. Drilling targeted mineralisation in two zones, at [...]

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 [...]

Construction and development have begun on Namibia's biggest project since independence - the $450m Skorpion zinc mine and refinery. The contract was awarded to Bateman Project Holdings of the UK [...]

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 [...]

* Canadian-based Platinova says is seeking options for the renewed exploration of its zinc properties in Greenland. At its Washington Land project, it regards the Cass prospect as particularly encouraging, [...]

* Volcan Cia Minera, now Peru's largest private-sector zinc producer, is reported to be in preliminary purchase talks with the owners of the 36,000 t/y Chungar zinc mine which is [...]

Boliden Ltd pushed the button to start its newly expanded Ronnskar smelter on August 21, on time and on budget, according to Johan Wiklund, general manager of the complex. The [...]

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 [...]

African Mining Monitor-(C)1998-2000 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD Sable Zinc, a joint venture 80% owned by Barclays Bank with Kabwe Power and Metal and Zambia`s Commonwealth Development Corp sharing the remainder, is [...]

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, [...]

Zinc corrosion might be and adequate metaphor for one producer--San Ignacio de Morococha, Simsa--one of the nation's oldest mining companies. It has been beset by family feuding since the patriarch, [...]

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 [...]

The Premier of Queensland, the Hon. Peter Beattie, officially opened Pasminco's Century zinc mine on April 4, ten years after the first exploration drill-holes intersected significant mineralisation. Century is located [...]

The Century zinc mine operated by Pasminco Inc. was opened ten years after exploration began.

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. [...]

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 [...]

Reunion has had good results at its Skorpion mine in Namibia and this could lead to a doubling of the company's share price. The mine could yield 900,000 tonnes of zinc and Reunion has an option of more than 60% for Skorpion, with Anglo American holding the remainder. A pre-feasibility study has to be carried out on the mine, and between $150 million and $200 million will be needed for the mine to be brought into production, though Skorpion's costs are likely to be low.

Rheinzink GmbH & Co. KG, manufacturer of titanium zinc building material for roofing, wall cladding, and rainwater goods, has established Rheinzink America Inc., headquartered in Cambridge, Mass. The new subsidiary [...]

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 [...]

The Finnish-based metals producer Outokumpu Oyj has announced a timetable for the review of its Tara zinc-lead mining operation in Ireland, and has outlined the relevant issues regarding a possible [...]

Although a devastating blow for the mining industry of Ireland, Outokumpu's decision announced last week to close Tara, Europe's largest zinc mine, should come as no surprise in terms of [...]

Canadian Zinc Corp. has completed a drilling programme at its Prairie Creek project in Canada's Northwest Territories, and has received the final assay results. The last assays come from two [...]