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Red Dog mine

Red Dog mine, United States. Producing, open pit, mining zinc, lead, silver since 1989.

Why Red Dog is famous

Red Dog is a zinc-lead mine in the DeLong Mountains, 144 km north of Kotzebue, Alaska. It began production in 1989 and shipped its first concentrate in 1990. Teck Alaska owns and runs it on land leased from the NANA Regional Corporation, an Alaska Native corporation that receives a share of net proceeds. The mine area is about 1,000 ha.1,2

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What kind of deposit

Sedimentary exhalative (SEDEX) zinc-lead

Red Dog today

Where zinc is mined todayWhere lead is mined todayWhere silver is mined todayMining in United States

Where next

Mines

Same kind of depositRammelsberg mineRammelsberg was mined from the 3rd century BC. Red Dog began production in 1989.3

Deposit types

An example ofSedimentary exhalative (SEDEX) zinc-leadA working example of the sedimentary exhalative (sedex) zinc-lead type.4

Sources

  1. 2023 Annual Information Form Teck Resources Limited (SEC, Form 40-F)
  2. data/minerals/operations.csv (modern operations table) prospectortrails.com internal data
  3. Rammelsberg Ore Mine and the historic town of Goslar, evaluation No 623 UNESCO World Heritage Centre / ICOMOS advisory body evaluation
  4. Mineral Deposit Models (Bulletin 1693, Cox and Singer, eds., 1986) US Geological Survey

From the Prospector Trails mining history dataset: each fact links to the source it was checked against. Figures are as the source gives them, in the money of their day. Not investment advice.

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Cover photos from Wikimedia Commons: Froth flotation and tailings by Nina111955, CC BY-SA 4.0; Ball mills and SAG mills by photosmith2011, Flickr, CC BY-SA 2.0. Pictures: South Africa: a crowd of people gathered outside The Goldfields offices in Johannesburg. 1896., Unknown (Wellcome Collection) (Public Domain Mark 1.0).