Zinc mining in the United States

The Red Dog is a polymetallic deposit, which also produces lead and silver concentrates.

The mine produces silver, gold, zinc and lead from a structurally and mineralogically complex VMS deposit.

In 2019 it produced 56,805 tonnes of zinc in concentrate as a byproduct of silver-gold mining.

[7] Doe Run Resources' mines on carbonate-hosted lead-zinc deposits (Mississippi Valley-type deposits) in the Southeast Missouri Lead District include Casteel, Buick, Brushy Creek, Fletcher, Sweetwater and Mine No.

They are the Coy, Immel, and Young mines in the East Tennessee Zinc Complex, and the Gordonsville, Elmwood, and Cumberland mines in the Middle Tennessee Zinc Complex.

Nyrstar produced 115,000 tonnes of zinc in concentrate from its East and Middle Tennessee mines in 2018.

Mining operations began in 1756 in the Austinville-Ivanhoe District of Wythe County, Virginia.

[11] The US has two smelter facilities, one primary and one secondary, producing commercial-grade zinc metal.

The total amount of zinc produced from secondary operations was 70 tons.

For primary and secondary smelters taken together, recycled products accounted for 25 percent (30,000 tonnes) of the refined zinc produced in US in 2019.

In the same year, the US exported 870,000 tonnes of zinc in ore concentrates, mostly from the Red Dog Mine in Alaska.