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INVENTORIES: (Tables) | 12 Months Ended
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Dec. 31, 2012
INVENTORIES: |
Schedule of inventories |
|  | As of December 31, |
(in millions) |  | 2012 |  | 2011 |
Inventory, current: |  |  |  |  |
Metals at lower of average cost or market: |  |  |  |  |
Finished goods |  | $ | 101.1 |  | $ | 93.3 |
Work-in-process |  | 297.4 |  | 290.3 |
Supplies at average cost |  | 284.2 |  | 252.4 |
Total current inventory |  | $ | 682.7 |  | $ | 636.0 |
Inventory, long-term: |  |  |  |  |
Long-term leach stockpiles |  | $ | 262.8 |  | $ | 128.8 |

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