CN Railway serves all nine smelters in Canada.

Earlier metallurgical tests done for the prefeasibility study recovered 84.7% of the copper and 75.7% of the zinc.

The impact is felt strongly by mining companies dependent on rail to either transport supplies in, or transport products and by-products from operations.

Vedanta Ltd. reported a 61% jump in quarterly profit as a one-time tax benefit countered lower metal prices and slowing demand.

The oil and gas explorer aims to boost revenue from its mining business to $100 million annually within three years.

The best gold value was 7.15 g/t over 0.33 metre.

Company wide Q3 copper production came in at 36,422 tonnes with an additional 28,639 tonnes of zinc as well as 41,500 oz. of gold equivalent ounces.

Trevali has confirmed that it is on track to meet or exceed its 2019 production guidance of 361 million to 401 million pounds of payable zinc.