Asarco to miss 2007 450,000 lb moly production target

"Henderson, Kentucky (Platts)--24Sep2007

US copper producer Asarco will not meet its goal of producing approximately 450,000 lb of molybdenum in 2007, a company official told Platts on Monday.

"We're at about half of our projected levels," said John Low, Asarco vice president of mining operations. "It just wasn't in the ore.. It didn't turn out as we projected," he added.

Asarco resumed moly production last December at its Mission complex in Sahurita, Arizona.  Molybdenum, which occurs naturally in the Mission ore body, is produced as a byproduct of Asarco's copper operation.

Prior to the moly restart, Joseph Lapinsky, Asarco president and CEO, said restarting the molybdenum circuit would allow the company to better utilize its mineral resources and benefit from favorable market conditions. The company last produced molybdenum in 1996 but stopped because of low market prices and the absence of the mineral in the ore then being mined.

According to Low, Asarco is working on its 2008 moly projects. The company expects to complete its evaluation in about a month, he added.

--Bob Matyi, newsdesk@platts.com"
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Research Article suggests link between leukemias (including CCL and AML) and ionizing radiation over decades of exposure

"Ionizing radiation and chronic lymphocytic leukemia" - despite Government Insurance claims/standards, there may be a link between CCL and exposure to radiation.  There is with Acute Myeloid leukemia and other acute forms in the Nuclear defense industry.

From: Environmental Health Perspectives  |  Date: 1/1/2005  |  Author: Hoffmann, Wolfgang; Richardson, David B.; Schmitz-Feuerhake, Inge; Schroeder, Jane; Wing, Steve
http://www.encyclopedia.com/printable.aspx?id=1G1:136511527
" It is well established that ionizing radiation has the ability to produce double-strand breaks in chromosomal DNA (United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation 2000). The primary mechanism by which biologic damage occurs is believed to be via the creation of ionized atoms and molecules that become chemically reactive. This can occur directly via ionization of a critical molecule, such as DNA, or indirectly via ionization of nearby molecules, such as water."...