Nyrstar has halted production at its Port Pirie lead smelter in Australia and declared force majeure, the Belgian-headquartered metals and mining company said on Thursday. It stopped output at Port ...

MELBOURNE — Belgium’s Nyrstar said on Monday it had shut down its zinc-lead smelter furnace in Port Pirie, Australia, after an incident in the second disruption at the plant this year. An unidentified ...

Nyrstar added it would provide further information in due course but at the latest when it publishes H1 results on July 31. Port Pirie produced 160,000 tonnes of lead metal last year, down 7% from ...

Nyrstar – and its parent company Trafigura – wants to spend more than $400m on retrofitting its Port Pirie site to produce critical metals used in defence, renewables and other emerging ...

There will be a negative impact to Nyrstar’s lead metal production due to the outage,” he added. Port Pirie produced 160,000 tonnes of lead metal last year, down 7 percent from the previous year.