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Location: Red Dog Mine, Northwest Arctic Borough: State: Alaska: ... The Red Dog mine is a large zinc and lead mine in a remote region of Alaska, about 80 miles ...
Red Dog Mine is a census-designated place (CDP) in the Northwest Arctic Borough of the U.S. state of Alaska. The population was 5 at the 2020 census , [ 2 ] down from 309 in 2010. Economy
National Geographic says that, "All 756 million pounds of toxic chemicals attributed to "Kotzebue" on the TRI dataset came from one of the world's largest zinc and lead mines, the Red Dog mine, which is located about 80 miles north of Kotzebue." [30] At the county level the Northwest Arctic of Alaska leads the list with 756,000,000 pounds of ...
Red Dog Mine
The Red Dog mine is the world's largest zinc mine. The mine opened in 1989, located about 30 miles (48 km) northeast of the monument, close to Noatak National Preserve on land owned by the NANA Regional Corporation, an Alaskan native corporation. The mine is operated by Teck Cominco Alaska.
In 2019, 552,400 tonnes of zinc, 71 percent of US mined zinc production, and 4.2 percent of world zinc production, came from Teck Resources' Red Dog mine, the world's most productive zinc mine, in northwest Alaska, near Kotzebue. [2] [3] [1] The mine opened in 1989. [4] The zinc is shipped as concentrate to foreign smelters.
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Red Dog Airport (IATA: RDB, ICAO: PADG, FAA LID: DGG) is a private-use airport located at Red Dog Mine, in the U.S. state of Alaska. The airport is privately owned by the NANA (Northwest Arctic Native Association) Regional Corporation. It has one asphalt paved runway designated 2/20 which measures 6,312 x 100 ft. (1,924 x 30 m). [1]