Miner has reported that tailings from its Sasa zinc-lead mine have leaked into a local river in northeastern Macedonia. Nobody has been harmed, company stated.
The early stage study outlines a mine life of 10.7 years producing a total of 600.2 million lb. of payable zinc, 230.1 million lb. payable lead, 78.3 million lb. payable copper, 8.1 million oz. payable silver and 38,324 oz. gold at all-in sustaining costs of $0.38 per lb. zinc.
The carbonate replacement deposit was intermittently mined for high-grade silver, gold, lead, zinc and copper sulphides until 1985, when the mine closed leaving faces in massive sulphide.
Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, Texas and Utah are seeing the release of new uranium resources, permit fast-tracking, and production and processing starts.