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The world's top ten lead and zinc mines, you know a few?

1. Rampura Agucha Location: India Company: Vedanta Limited Reserves: 51.1 million tons, grade: zinc 14.0, lead 1.8, resources: 5.27 million tons. Mine life: open to March 2018, underground to 2030. Raw ore production capacity: 6.15 million tons/year


1 、 Rampura Agucha

Location: India

Company: Vedanta Limited

Reserves: 51.1 million tons, grade: zinc 14.0, lead 1.8, resources: 5.27 million tons.

Mine life: open to March 2018, underground to 2030.

Raw ore production capacity: 6.15 million tons/year

2、Red Dog

Location: United States

Company: Teck resources

Reserves: 56.6 million tons, grade: zinc 14.6, lead 4.1, resources: 200000 tons.

Mine life: 1989-2031

Zinc output: 567000 tons of zinc in 2015 and 570000 tons expected in 2016.

3 、 Antamine

Location: Peru

Company: BHP Billiton (33.75 per cent), Glencore (33.75 per cent), Tektronix (22.5 per cent), Mitsubishi (10 per cent)

Reserves: 598 million tons, grade: zinc 0.97%, resources: 1097 million tons

Mine life: 2001-2029

4、Mount Isa

Location: Australia

Company: Glencore

Reserves: 78 million tons, grade: 7.5 zinc, 4% lead, resources: 470 million tons

Mine life: Black Star mine life to 2016,Lady Loretta mine to 2021,George Fisher2029

Zinc output: 478200 tons of zinc in 2015 and about 280000 tons in 2016. MountIsa mining assets consist primarily of the George Fisher, Black Star and Lady Loretta mines.

5, Penasquito

Location: Mexico

Company: Goldcorp

Reserves: 586.68 million tons of metal reserves: 4.0306 million tons of zinc grade: 0.69% of zinc, resources: 1.44 million tons of zinc.

Mine life: 2009-2029

6、San Cristobal

Location: Bolivia

Company: Sumitomo Japan

Reserves: 285.3 million tons, grade: zinc 1.41%, lead 0.48%

Mine life: 2007-2024

Zinc production: normal daily production of 1300 tons of zinc silver concentrate and 300 tons of lead silver concentrate, zinc about 200000 tons/year.

7、McArthur River

Location: Australia

Company: Glencore

Reserves: 102 million tons, grade: zinc 10%, lead 4.8, resources: 180 million tons

Mine life: The life of the reserves will end in 2043, and the current production plan will end in 2034.

8 、 Cerro Lindo

Location: Peru

所属公司:Compania MineraMilpo S.A.

Reserves: 46.12 million tons, grade: zinc 2.45, lead 0.26, resources: 39.82 million tons

Mine life: 2007-2028

9 、 Tara Mines

Location: Ireland

Company: Boliden

Reserves: 17 million tons grade: zinc 6.3%, lead 1.5%, resources 8.7 million tons.

Mine life: 1977-2021

10, Scorpio

Location: Namibia

Company: Vedanta Limited

Reserves: 5.1 million tons, zinc grade: 8.77, resources: 3.1 million tons