Red Dog mine: the biggest zinc mine in the world

 

Sand banks have changed their locations numerous times. The local population has been living from fishing and hunting on a land rich of natural resources.
Is it the Wadden Sea before and during medieval times? No, it's Kotzebue, Alaska, just above the polar circle.
Here, some twenty miles from the arctic Chuchki Sea the Red Dog Mine is located. Red Dog is the biggest zinc mine in the world. And it's an open pit mine at the edge of national park Cape Krusenstern where, during summer, most of America's trekking birds are nestling …

Red Dog is doing well. Extremely well.
Which measures have been taken to dig precious natural resources in this arctic region? Moreover, what the owner, the Canadian mining multinational Teck Cominco, is doing to preserve the fragile environment and the health of its inhabitants? Or does mining in this pristine, remote region have a Janus head?

Inupiaq tribes do possess a share in profits. And those profits reached an all time high after zinc prices and demand from China more than doubled