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Mercator Minerals, Ltd. is a mineral resource company engaged in the mining, exploration, development and operation of its mineral properties in Arizona, United States and Sonora, Mexico. The Company’s principal assets are the 100% owned Mineral Park Mine, a producing copper-moly mine located near Kingman, Arizona and the El Pilar Project located in Sonora Mexico. The primary focus of the Company is the expansion of copper production and molybdenum concentrate production at the Mineral Park Mine, and the development of the El Pilar Project. Its other projects include The El Creston molybdenum property, which is 175 kilometers south of the United States Border and 145 kilometers northeast of the city of Hermosillo; Molybrook, which is located on the south coast of Newfoundland, and Ajax, which is located 13 kilometers north of Alice Arm, British Columbia.

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Comment by ElJon Jan 06, 2011 4:02pm

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RE: RE: RE: RE: Numbers.....dieter216

Dieter216, I interpret your question this morning( "December Holidays impact"?) to relate to plant feed throughput rather than any of the various variables such as % content in the feed, recoveries, product-focused-processing trade-offs, %age product in outpot concentrate(revenue discounts), etc...
Answer : The average plant throughput in Q4, 2009 was 23,235 tonnes per day.

It is also worth noting that in the early part of 2010 when Mercator increased throughput to over 30,000 tonnes per day, they wisely deliberately decided to cut-back throughput to retain more acceptable recoveries at that time. These problems are planned to be overcome with the installation and commissioning of the new additional processing equipment, as Mercator builds towards 50K per day,

Regards,
ElJ

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