Teck Resources Ltd - Trail Operations smelting and refining complex

Canada / British Columbia / Trail /
 metallurgy, zinc mine/processing, smelter
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This operation is said to be the world's largest integrated zinc and lead smelting and refining complex. The operations produce refined lead and zinc metal, as well as a variety of other metals. Teck is the world's largest producer of the specialty metals germanium (used in semiconductors) and indium (used in flat screen TVs), and also produces significant quantities of gold, silver, cadmium (used in rechargeable batteries), bismuth, and antimony. In addition to the fertilizers manufactured at the nearby fertilizer plant, several industrial chemicals are also produced here, including sulphur, liquid sulphur dioxide, sulphuric acid, copper sulphate, copper arsenate, and sodium antimonate.

The smelter is also a leading recycler of lead batteries and electronic waste.

The Trail smelter has a long history of technological innovation since it opened in 1896 as the British Columbia Smelting & Refining Co to process copper-gold ores from the mines at Rossland. Taken over by the CPR in 1898, the operation by 1906 had become the Consolidated Mining and Smelting Company of Canada (CM&S), later known as Cominco. Cominco merged with the mining firm Teck Corporation to form Teck Cominco Ltd in 2001, and in 2009 the company changed its name to Teck Resources Ltd.

www.teck.com/
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Coordinates:   49°6'15"N   117°43'8"W

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  • This place is dumping massive pollutants into the Columbia River. Canada doesn't care because all the pollution flows into the US, and the company tries to avoid responsibility be blameshifting.
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