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INVENTORIES

12 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2017

Inventory Disclosure [Abstract]

Inventories

INVENTORIES

	December 31, 2017				December 31, 2016
Concentrates and work-in-progress (a)	$	14,118			$	13,788
Raw materials and consumables	2,432				2,973
	$	16,550			$	16,761

(a) For the year ended December 31, 2017, the Company recorded an impairment loss of $3.31 million in the statement of operations related to concentrates and work in progress inventories (December 31, 2016 - $5.36 million).

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The entire disclosure for inventory. Includes, but is not limited to, the basis of stating inventory, the method of determining inventory cost, the classes of inventory, and the nature of the cost elements included in inventory.

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Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef
-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 330
-URI http://asc.fasb.org/topic&trid=2126998

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