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Gold/Mining/Energy : Precious and Base Metal Investing -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: jrhana who wrote (21454)	9/30/2003 12:39:17 PM
From: Tommaso	Respond to of 39344

Here's another mining issue I would like to hear someone speak to. A couple of years ago I stopped in northern Idaho. In one conversation I had, I was told that what silver ore was being mined then (and it wasn't much) was being shipped all the way to Japan to be refined. I never checked anywhere else to make sure this was true. To judge from the volume of powdered ore being refined at the Homestake mine back about 1988, it would not make much economic sense to transport unrefined ore long distances, but then that stuff they were bringing up from a mile or so down wasn't the richest material. Are there any examples of currently operating gold mines from which the ore is exported or transported long distances to be refined?