June 6, 2019 Nyrstar suspends Port Pirie lead smelter, declares force majeure The company stopped output at Port Pirie on May 28 due to an unplanned outage at the blast furnace.
June 4, 2019 Canada’s Monarca to acquire San José project in Mexico Chip sampling on the property produced significant gold, silver, copper, zinc and lead results.
May 22, 2019 Osisko Metals drills 13 metres of 19% zinc+lead at Pine Point The company has released additional assay results from 145 drill holes completed at the Pine Point zinc-lead camp.
May 9, 2019 China’s environmental crackdown buoys lead, zinc Zinc stocks plummeted from 900,000 tonnes at the beginning of 2014 to around 120,000 five years later - due to a rash of zinc mine closures over the past few…
May 8, 2019 Osisko Metals tests pre-concentrating sorters Two technologies were tested – x-ray transmission sorting and dense media separation.
May 6, 2019 Hong Kong exchange to launch dollar-denominated mini contracts for base metals The new offering comes five years after a similar product fizzled on the Singapore Exchange (SGX).
May 6, 2019 Massive base metals mine in Myanmar to start production in 2021 Bawdwin will be the world’s No. 3 producing lead mine and the tenth largest silver operation. It’s also set to become a significant zinc producer.
April 30, 2019 China’s metals imports robust despite macro doubts Industrial metal markets are taking a breather as they await tangible evidence that China's latest stimulus package is feeding through to a flagging manufacturing sector.
April 30, 2019 Tower Resources starts exploration program at Nechako gold project in BC The Vancouver-based miner said the Nechako Au-Ag-Zn-Pb-As dispersal train is similar in size and strength to known trains from some of Canada's largest gold deposits.
April 24, 2019 Osisko Metals cut 9.4% Pb+Zn over 12 metres at Pine Point The company has received assay results from 127 drill holes.
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