Bloomberg reported that Kagara Zinc Ltd, which sells its output to Korea Zinc Co, has halted production of zinc, copper and lead at its Mount Garnet mine in Australia after prolonged un seasonal rain.

Heavy monsoon rainfall cut 2 weeks of output at Mount Garnet in the previous quarter. Mr Joe Treacy director of Kagara said that about 1,000 tonnes of zinc metal, 500 tonnes of copper and about 200 tonnes of lead would be lost from production because of the halt. Meanwhile, Mr Treacy added that “It won’t have any impact on our deliveries to Sun Metals, we have got stockpiles of concentrate at the Mount Garnet operation.”

Kagara has also suspended trucking of ore from the mine in Queensland State on June 20th 2007 and halted mining on June 22nd 2007. The suspension will probably result in a 7 day halt to production and will not affect deliveries of concentrate to Korea Zinc’s Australian unit called Sun Metals Corp.