Page 20 infrastructure from the original sites will be reused such as the shafts for ventilation and lateral headways which will be rehabilitated and used for mining Xstrata Zinc spent more than a year compiling data from paper logs in the absence of drill core and did more than 40000 metres of drilling to con Not only is it there but it s a bit big ger than we expected said Cote zinc 123 copper 106 lead 5053 gt silver and 073 gt gold The Errington deposit grades 47 zinc 146 copper 146 lead 5377 gt silver and 089 gold Assuming zinc prices hold up and the project gets a green light the compa ny will spend 350 million to develop the two properties and build a concen trator at Xstrata Nickel s Strathcona Smelter complex The 2900 tonne per day operation will have a mine life of seven to ten years and create employment for 250 people nickel theyre polymetallic zinc de posits says Cote T o my knowledge there are very few other zinc anomalies in the entire Sudbury basin Both deposits contain zinc copper lead and a fair amount of precious metals she added are located west of Sudbury along the smaller it s considered a richer min eralization Headquartered in Madrid Spain Xstrata Zinc is one of the world s lar g est producers of zinc and one of the commodity business units within group GlencoreXstrata plc Xstrata s zinc and lead operations and exploration projects are located in Australia Canada Germany Peru In Canada operations and exploration projects include the 25 of the CEZ Perseverance BracemacMcLeodz inc deposits in Quebec and explora tion activities in Quebec Ontario and Nunavut Around half of all zinc currently con sumed is used for galvanizing steel which is an environmentally friendly method of protecting steel against corrosion manufacture of diecast alloys brass and the production of zinc oxides and chemicals Glencore is one of the world s lar g est mining and metals companies a ma jor producer of seven commodities Contd from pg 19 V ermilion and Errington deposits SUDBUR Y MINING REPOR T 2014