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This business topic index page has the latest Zinc business news stories from Fairfax Media newspapers and online sources.

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Falling zinc prices force mine lay-offs

Zinc miner CBH Resources slashes size of its workforce for third time in five months as it struggles to break even at its Endeavor mine near Cobar.

Zinc or swim for Perilya as production slumps

Broken Hill miner Perilya appears to have bled nearly $40 million in cash in the September quarter, not counting funds applied to debt repayments and redundancies.

As zinc sinks, OZ considers the cuts

The collapse in the price of zinc has pushed OZ Minerals' Century mine in Queensland into loss-making territory, prompting OZ to consider whether it should cut production or defer a life-extending waste rock removal program.

Oz Minerals tips lower zinc output

The world's second-largest zinc miner maintains plans to slash zinc from its Australian mine by up to 40% in 2009 as prices tumble.

Kagara bounces back as Admiral Bay zinc deposit displays potential

The prospect that the price of the metal can't slump any further also underpins the company's shares.

OZ Minerals at zinc-face as resource sector weakens

Cracks in Australia's resource boom have begun to appear. Just ask OZ Minerals, the recently merged Oxiana and Zinifex, and the operator of the Broken Hill operation, Perilya.

Plenty of zinc, but it's not the metal of the month

Miner Kagara could have chosen a better time to announce details of its Admiral Bay project.

Terramin says zinc price set to recover

Zinc miner Terramin Australia says it is not operating at a loss and that the metal's price will recover from its low levels in coming months.

Oz Minerals expects zinc prices to rise

Oz Minerals expects prices of the metal to rebound from 2010 as supplies from mines dwindle.

Oversupply puts zinc under pressure

STEELMAKING materials such as iron ore, coking coal and manganese have hit the headlines this year in light of record prices due to a boom in demand from the industrialising economies of China and India.