Since Red Dog began production NANA has distributed over $1.5 billion in revenue-sharing payments to other Native regional and village corpora- tions. Red Dog is in Northwest Alaska 90 miles north of Kotzebue, ine DeLong Mountains. The mine operates and produces zinc and lead year-around, shipping concentrates by truck to a storage facility on the Chukchi Sea coast owned by the Alaska Industri- al Development and Export Authority, the state’s development finance cor - poration. The ore is shipped seasonal- ly during the summer/fall open water season in the Chukchi Sea, which is typically 115 days. The mine is a major employer in Northwest Alaska with 635 full-time employees, including 111 contrac- tor employees. Production at Red Dog started in 1989 but it had been discov- ered years earlier by prospectors with its lands were selected by NANA as part of its ANSCA selection rights. Had NANA not selected the lands they would have wound up in a na- tional park, wildlife refuge or national monument in the 1980 Alaska National Lands and Conservation Act.
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