11.   Several Peruvian mining companies, such as Minas Buenaventura, SIMSA and Milpo, have linked up with foreign houses in exploration projects.

12.   Volcan SA, Perubar SA and Cia. Minera San Ignacio de Morococha SA, all zinc mining companies, led the rise.

13.   Dalenergo, meanwhile, has fell behind in payments to the Primorskugol mining company, leading to the wage setbacks for miners.

14.   Most mining companies have seen their inventories and share prices grow in value along with prices.

15.   Once in operation, most mining companies handle all the above activities by themselves rather than hiring outside mining service companies, he said.

16.   The extraordinary rebound in gold prices in recent days is claiming some unlikely victims -- a few of the gold mining companies themselves.

17.   Tribes, mining company reach agreement in Irian Jaya.

18.   Freeport McMoRan, a US mining company brought in by Bre-X as a partner in Busang, issued a separate report describing the gold finds as negligeable.

19.   Clinton noted that a US mining company, PacifiCorp, has agreed to trade the land lease it holds in the designated zone for property in other areas.

20.   Japanese and Australian mining companies have ageed to scrap a joint zinc production project due to the sluggish zinc market, a news report said here Tuesday.