Technology enhances Red Dog processing
Operating for 17 years, Arctic lead-zinc mine shows no sign of slowing down, and finding space for new equipment is a challenge
Last updated 4/29/2007 at Noon
As production steadily increases, investment in mill upgrades is making a big difference in the quality of lead and zinc concentrates at Teck Cominco's Red Dog mine in northwest Alaska. Bringing in new equipment and enhancing systems is always a challenge because the facility is already a labyrinth of massive SAG mills, ball mills and flotation columns, mill engineer Curtiss Ehrsam said at a me...
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