you are if the lead was not there the mine wouldn't be either, value wise it makes more $$ per year from lead alone than silver. 70% of the ore is lead, which gets extracted first then is processed to get the silver. it is a lead mine that produces silver not the other way around. Silver is the byproduct taken out after the lead is concentrated, making it the BYPRODUCT of the mine
Just show me any report or link which states that the lead is a by-product and I will accept. But according to the silver institute it is one of the primary products. So I doubt my list is wrong. Perhaps email them.
BS. Broken Hill has a similar geology where the ore contains silver, lead and zinc. Silver was the primary target. Revenues of lead now exceed silver only because the silver price has crapped itself. When the mine was commissioned, and for many years after, silver was the primary revenue. Source: http://www.miningnews.net/knowledgebase/company/cannington/
For starters we are talking about cannington not broken hill you are quoting an article that uses the same source as the other person here what is wrong here is a recent news article dated 01/10/2014 with a quote saying silver is a byproduct where cannington is specifically mentioned and it will be left in teh ground to support the silver price. http://www.smh.com.au/business/anal...metal-hits-fouryear-lows-20141001-10ompi.html just in case you dont want to read the whole thing. again let me make this clear LEAD is the main product at cannington silver is a byprouct in value, vloume and in production terms.
Mr Battershill pointed out that over the next two years about 10 per cent of the world's zinc production will come off stream. The silver extracted as a byproduct in those mines will, therefore, stay in the ground and give some firm support to the silver price He is referring to the zinc mines mate.
which cannington is a massive zinc mine primarily with silver as a byproduct extracted from the LEAD concentrate and is like I said specifically mentioned in that article you seem to have missed this part and where it also calls silver a BYPRODUT again just in case you missed it where they specifically point out cannington: and again where they call silver a bypeoduct
Cannington is not closing in in 2 years time, he is referring to Zinc mines. It is that lead which he is referring to which may well be by-products. He is not making a statement that Cannington is closing down, nor does he refer to Cannington producing a silver byproduct, they actually refer to it as a Silver and Lead mine.
M Sorry mate, according to someone here, you are also wrong... Apparently Cannington is not a silver mine....:lol:
We could sling articles all night.... :lol: Here are a few more: And... from the owner.... BHP Billiton:
you are a complete moron no one said cannington is closing they say silver is a byproduct and it will be left in the ground to support the silver price i.e. cannington will still be producing lead just not extracting the silver BYPRODUCT you have the reading comprehension skills of retarded monkey with half a brain
Sorry WRCMAD, apparently ALL those articles are wrong..... Ha ha... It appears we can not trust anything we read anymore...
it does mine silver so techinally it is a silver mine but it is not the primary product produced there that is lead, then zinc. That is why they are looking at not extracting the silver byproduct.
again turtle-heading retard it is a silver mine just not a PRIMARY silver mine that extracts silver as its prime metal, it extracts ZINC with silver as a byproduct. I never said it did not produce silver just that it is not the primary metal at the mine.
"they say silver is a byproduct and it will be left in the ground to support the silver price i.e. cannington will still be producing lead just not extracting the silver BYPRODUCT" I have been an analyst in base metal mining for 15 years and this statement clearly indicates you don't know what you are talking about.
BS you clearly dont have a clue and cant read what is wrong about that statement please do tell us read the article again I am just quoting it. but you aare the :so called "expert" lol expert at spinning BS Silver @ cannington is a byproduct and will not be produced to support the silver price, canningting will still be operations producing lead you are a dead set moron worse than the end
I have a 20 year background in process metallurgy, including 16 years at BHP, and apparently I don't know shit from clay. :lol:
