From NortherMiner today"For the zinc price, Andrew Thomas, senior analyst at Wood Mackenzie, wondered aloud “how high can it go?” and tossed out numbers such as US$2,500 and US$2,900 per tonne. Zinc “outperformed the rest of the base metals complex” in 2016, as we saw the “biggest year-over-year drop in zinc production ever.” Most of the supply reduction came from Australia, with Chinese smelters “bearing the brunt of the loss.”
Here are the zinc price today ($1,27) - That would be quite a raise would it not.
https://www.kitcometals.com/charts/zinc.html