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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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