Annual zinc production at top five miners

News Markets Intelligence Careers Education Buyers Guide News Markets Buyer's Guide Advertise RSS Newsletter The Northern Miner MINING.COM Canadian Mining Journal Sign In Join Profile Sign out Copper Gold Lithium Nickel Commodities Iron Ore Rare Earth Coal Uranium Cobalt Diamond Zinc Platinum Palladium Silver Potash Suppliers Equipment TOP 50 USA Canada Australia Regions Africa China Latin America Europe Asia TNM Maps TNM Marco Polo Michael Allan McCrae | September 11, 2018 | 11:31 am Base Metals Intelligence Canada Latin America Zinc Teck Resource’s Red Dog is still zinc’s king-of-the-hill after producing 542 kilotonnes of the metal in 2017. While top-ranked Red Dog is 170-kilometers north of the Arctic Circle in Alaska with winter lows of -22C, the number two mine, Rampura Agucha, is located in India and has maximum temperature high of 34C. Sign Up for the Copper Digest Sign Up Rampura produced 438 kilotonnes of zinc in 2017. Production at both Red Dog and Rampura Agucha softened in 2017, while Antimina had a stellar year and nearly doubled its zinc output. In its year end Teck attributes the increase to mining and processing significantly higher zinc ore grades. “Zinc mines are running flat out to take advantage of higher prices. The base metal has notoriously short price peaks,” says Jennifer Leinart, President ...

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