DeLong Mountain Terminal

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This is the shipping terminal for the Zinc concentrate from the Red Dog Mine. An 84 km-long gravel service road connects the port to the mine and ore is shipped in 35 tonne trucks which are owned by a NANA-Lynden Transport joint venture on a 24 hour basis. Concentrate is lightered to the ocean freighters under contract to the Foss Corporation. Ocean shipping is arranged through Teck Cominco Ltd’s traffic group for transport through to the smelting complexes.

Storage capacity at the facility is approximately 1 million tonnes and the port operates seansonally, usually only open from early July to Mid October. The terminal is owned and was developed by AIDEA (Alaska Industrial Development and Export Authority) and is known as the Delong Mountain Transportation System. It was opened in 1990 to support the development of the Red Dog mine.