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Investments | 12 Months Ended
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Dec. 31, 2015
Investment in Marketable Securities [Abstract] |
INVESTMENTS | INVESTMENTS The Company invests in equity securities of silver and gold exploration and development companies. These investments are classified as available-for-sale and are measured at fair value in the financial statements with unrealized gains and losses recorded in Other comprehensive income (loss).
| At December 31, 2015
In thousands | Cost |  | Gross Unrealized Losses |  | Gross Unrealized Gains |  | Estimated Fair Value
Equity securities | 3,386 |  |  | (1,179 | ) |  | 559 |  |  | 2,766 |
| At December 31, 2014
In thousands | Cost |  | Gross Unrealized Losses |  | Gross Unrealized Gains |  | Estimated Fair Value
Equity securities | $ | 5,687 |  |  | $ | (8 | ) |  | $ | 303 |  |  | $ | 5,982 |
The Company performs a quarterly assessment on each of its equity securities with unrealized losses to determine if the security is other than temporarily impaired. The Company recorded pre-tax other-than-temporary impairment losses of $2.3 million, $6.6 million, and $18.3 million in the years ended December 31, 2015, 2014, and 2013, respectively, in Other, net. The following table summarizes the gross unrealized losses on equity securities for which other-than-temporary impairments have not been recognized and the fair values of those securities, aggregated by the length of time the individual securities have been in a continuous unrealized loss position, at December 31, 2015:
| Less than twelve months |  | Twelve months or more |  | Total
In thousands | Unrealized Losses | Fair Value |  | Unrealized Losses | Fair Value |  | Unrealized Losses | Fair Value
Equity securities | $ | (1,179 | ) | $ | 614 |  |  | $ | — |  | $ | — |  |  | $ | (1,179 | ) | $ | 614 |

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