Zinc situation today The demand of zinc is increasing versus the production that is decreasing so the trend actually started to shift. Why the prices of zinc are not going higher? It's because of the economic slowdown in Europe this created in 2011 a considerable surplus of overstocked Zinc. So don'r be surprised that the price of Zinc don't go anywhere for the next few month. Once the overstock is gone and hopefully the economy recovers we will see the prices trending up. Already the US economy is recovering slowely as for Europe I beleive we seen the bottom of it and the only way is up hopefully.