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Burkina Faso’s first zinc mine to start up

sharenet | September 11, 2011 | 2:05 pm Base Metals Africa Europe Zinc

SYDNEY (Reuters) – A new zinc mine in west Africa is due to start up in mid-2012, just as some of the world’s largest deposits are winding down, creating the first window in years for new suppliers in a chronically over-supplied market. The Glencore