Featured Project: Red Dog Mine

Project: Red Dog Mine, the largest Zinc mine in the world
Company: NANA Regional Corporation
Challenge: Create an environmentally sound mine on NANA lands in an arctic environment; taking into account the views of the Inupiat people of Norwest Alaska, and protecting traditional food sources.
Partner: Teck, Inc. – Alaska

The Red Dog Mine, the world’s largest zinc mine, operates on land owned by the NANA Regional Corporation, Inc. (NANA), and is wholly owned by the Native people of Northwest Alaska. The mining operation is conducted under lease to Teck Alaska, Incorporated, a Canadian resource development company. (Cominco Ltd. was the original operating partner at Red Dog, prior to merging with Teck Corporation in 2001).NANA and Teck became partners in the Red Dog project through a unique development agreement which assured environmental protection and economic benefits for the Iñupiat people through the development of the world’s largest zinc mine. Throughout the more than two decades of development at the mine, NANA companies have been there – providing the needed services, people and technology from the beginning.