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Inventories (Tables) | 12 Months Ended
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Dec. 31, 2017
Subclassifications of assets, liabilities and equities [abstract] |
Schedule of inventories | Inventories consist of:
|  | December 31, 2017 |  |  | December 31, 2016 |
Concentrate inventory |  | $ | 11,582 |  |  | $ | 12,891 |
Stockpile ore (1) |  | 16,209 |  |  | 31,964 |
Heap leach inventory and in process (2) |  | 108,509 |  |  | 109,705 |
Doré and finished inventory (3) |  | 35,054 |  |  | 36,864 |
Materials and supplies |  | 47,361 |  |  | 45,905 |
|  | $ | 218,715 |  |  | $ | 237,329 |
(1) | Includes an impairment charge of $10.0 million to reduce the cost basis of inventory to NRV at Manantial Espejo mine (December 31, 2016 – $6.0 million at Manantial Espejo and Dolores mines).
(2) | Includes an impairment charge of $10.3 million to reduce the cost basis of inventory to NRV at Manantial Espejo and Dolores mines (December 31, 2016 - $1.5 million at Manantial Espejo mine).
(3) | Includes an impairment charge of $2.9 million to reduce the cost basis of inventory to NRV at Manantial Espejo mine at December 31, 2017. (December 31, 2016 - $3.4 million at Manantial Espejo and Alamo Dorado mines).

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