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To: jackjc who wrote (4194)	1/5/2006 9:05:35 AM
From: Julian Augustus	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 78410

There is an important caveat that needs to be pointed out when one reads that blog (and indeed others of that nature): the fundamental premise on which the whole house of cards stands is that zinc demand would grow at 1.5-2.5% over the next decade or so.But the problem with projecting the past into the future is that past conditions would not necessarily persist into the future. If, for example, there is a global recession lasting a few years, as many forecast there could be, what happens to all the zinc demand?