Lundin Mining and EuroZinc entered into an agreement to merge through a Plan of Arrangement and that has now been completed. The merged company, Lundin Mining Corp, is listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX symbol LUN), the Stockholm Stock Exchange (SSE symbol LUMI) and the American Stock Exchange (AMEX symbol LMC) as of November 1, 2006. The new company, with a total of 1 500 employees, operates four profitable mines in Sweden, Portugal and Ireland and in 2007, a fifth mine is planned to start production in Portugal. The Portuguese mines will be International Mining's January issue Operations Focus. Production for 2006, on a combined basis, is estimated to be some 180,000 t of contained zinc, 90,000 t of contained copper, 45,000 t of contained lead and 6 Moz of contained silver.