Show I Highlights in Mining Circles les Prices PrIce n Dec 19 And Jan 6 tho the C 1 custom tom smelter price for copper as ai All gradually reduced from to t Ier er r lb Ib US U.S. pr du are flit 1111 quoting pot and nd the London Landon LondonI I on US U.S. equivalent alent Is le about per lb Ib Load Lead and zinc sine egan the new year ear at and Per lb Ib respectively prices vely Irh 1111 had hold held through most of 1956 Production and Consumption rl Figures res for tor October recently released showed showed lead consumption tion at tons tone highest reported reported re re- ported for Cor any month since Octo Octo- 11 he 1935 John L L. Kimberley executive ex put ve vice Ice president of ot American Zinc I Institute predicted d a 0 good consuming year for zinc In 1057 1911 Ito Ho I To p expressed his hla belief that use of ot the metal will wl surpass the record re re- cord rord of ot tons set lIet In 1955 1965 The COI Copper r and Drape Brass Research Association US U.S. copper capacity rising to tons ton I In 1957 with world orld output ins In In Increasing creasing to about tons Chile Chile produced a 1 record total of tons of of copper In 1956 1916 tons tona more than In 1965 1955 r National nal Minerals Minerai Policy Polley Interior Secretary Beaton said aId saidon aIdon on Jan 4 that basic bulc work had bad been completed on a range long dome domestic tle mining program and that an effort to coordinate H it with other Interior l Department agencies agen dies cies Is III underway He lie said he could ld see no reason why the program could not be submitted to Congress Con Con- gross gress In for enactment this yea He lie did not divulge an any details details de de- tails of the proposal Stockpile Notes Note The rhe American Metal Market recently re te- reported that an OO I of of- told n tile gove gov e e. e would continue lie Its present pre pre- sent lead Iud and zinc stockpile purchases purchases pur pur- chases to the middle of ot 1957 1931 The rhe Dept of Agriculture has author authority It ity to continue Its butter baiter of ot surplus sur sur- surplus plus agricultural p products for strategic materials material for the supplemental sup stockpile until the endo end o u. u fiscal 1937 19 GSA OSA did not accept all the lea least t and zinc offered for ht tC In do Decem December er No ex ex- j was given en Britain's Board Doard of Trade will otter offer tons tons' of ot copper copper- from the government govern go meat ment stockpile for tor delivery d during the three months of February March I and April 1957 |