:: Another Loss for Pasminco

Troubled zinc producer Pasminco Ltd of Australia is to lose yet another member of its senior management team. Wim de Graaff, the company's general manager for international smelting, responsible in particular for the Budel smelter in the Netherlands, has decided to retire on February 1, 2002. His announcement fol- lows the recent resignation of Pasminco's general manager for Australian smelting operations. Neither individual is to be replaced given the current uncertainty surrounding Pasminco's future.