What this place is
Red Dog can only ship for about 100 days a year when the Chukchi Sea is ice-free. Everything else is storage and logistics.
What comes out
Zinc
The metal that steel is dipped in so it does not rust — a sacrificial coating that corrodes instead of the iron…
Lead
A soft, dense, blue-grey metal that blocks radiation and stores charge cheaply — and that is also a well-documented…
Germanium
The element the very first transistors were made from, now used mainly for infrared lenses and fibre-optic glass.
A “by-product” is a metal recovered because it happens to be in the same rock, not because anyone went looking for it. Its supply therefore follows the primary metal’s economics, not its own.
Who owns it
| Company | Role | Interest |
|---|---|---|
| Teck Resources | Miner | Owner-operator |
As publicly reported by the operators. Ownership of large mines changes; verify against current company filings before relying on it.