Photo Courtesy Red Dog Mine
Teck Alaska is planning a new underground lead and zinc mine near the current Red Dog site, a surface mine.
Teck Alaska explores lead, zinc deposits
further exploration of the zinc deposit as well and for production assuming the project proceeds. Drilling to date has been from the surface. The new project is important be - cause ore resources at the current Red Dog Mine will be depleted by 2031. Teck’s plan is for development per - mitting for the new mine to begin in 2027 and production in 2031, Teck said in an investor presentation, a timing that coincides with the shut - down of mining at Red Dog. The new mine will be an underground project, in contrast to the present Red Dog
Mine which is being mined by open pit methods. The zinc and lead de - posit also contains germanium, an important strategic metal. Teck’s new mine has major impli - cations for the region. It is on state land rather than land owned by NANA Regional Corp., which means royal - ties go to the state rather than NANA and other Alaska Native corporations through revenue-sharing. However, NANA will likely be involved in the new mine and talks are underway on
Access road being built to site north of Red Dog Mine Teck Alaska has built 6.5 miles of its planned access road to new zinc and lead deposits about 10 miles north of Teck’s producing Red Dog Mine. The company will complete the road next winter and start work on a por - tal, or entrance, to an underground tunnel. The tunnel will be used for
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