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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
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