Primary Lead and Zinc Availability--market Economy Countries: A Minerals Availability Program AppraisalUnited States Department of the Interior, Bureau of Mines, 1985 - Lead industry and trade - 44 pages |
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add to totals annual ore capacity ASARCO Australia average total costs blast furnace Broken Hill byproduct silver cadmium Canada chalcopyrite Combined methods commodity Cut and fill DCFROR demonstrated resource deposits evaluated deposits in market electrolytic estimated long-run average evaluated as primary galena Imperial smelting furnace independent rounding Japan lead and zinc lead mines lead-zinc long-run average total market economy countries metal production metric metric ton Mexico mill operating costs million minerals mines and deposits mining method Namibia NAP NAP NAP NAP W NAP Open pit Peru potentially recoverable pound of zinc primary lead producing and undeveloped pyrite recoverable lead RECOVERABLE ZINC resources and weighted-average rocks Room and pillar secondary lead sinter smelter smelting smelting and refining South Africa sphalerite stratabound Sublevel open stope Sulfuric acid Sweden t/yr Table Total or average totals shown United vertical retort Weighted-average total cost zinc deposits zinc metal zinc production zinc resources