TRI facility · TRI 2024 reporting year

Red Dog Operations

Total reported releases 723.9M lb fell modestly year over year (-6%). Total releases concentrations are roughly unchanged from 2010.

90 MILES N OF KOTZEBUE, Kotzebue, Alaska · 212290 · Metal Mining · operated by Teck American INC

TOTAL RELEASES · 20102024
Bar chart of annual values from 2010 to 2024, in lb. Most recent year (2024): 723.9M.1124.4M'10'12'14'16'18'20'22'24723.9M
Anomaly engine

Notable Signals

LONG-ARC REGRESSION · LONG-ARC SHIFT

Manganese And Manganese Compounds

Manganese And Manganese Compounds at Red Dog Operations have more than doubled since 2010 (through 2024).

LONG-ARC REGRESSION · LONG-ARC SHIFT

Cadmium And Cadmium Compounds

Cadmium And Cadmium Compounds at Red Dog Operations have more than doubled since 2011 (through 2024).

Chemicals reported · most recent year

What This Facility Releases

GENERALCAS N982

Zinc compounds

380.8M lb · -5% YoY

Zinc compounds concentrations have fallen 16% since 2010.

PBTCAS N420

Lead And Lead Compounds

319.4M lb · -7% YoY

Lead And Lead Compounds concentrations are roughly unchanged from 2010.

RESPIRATORYCAS N450

Manganese And Manganese Compounds

15.9M lb · -15% YoY

Manganese And Manganese Compounds concentrations are up 50% since 2014.

RESPIRATORYCAS N090

Chromium and Chromium Compounds(except for chromite ore mined in the Transvaal Region)

2.6M lb · -9% YoY

Chromium and Chromium Compounds(except for chromite ore mined in the Transvaal Region) concentrations have more than doubled since 2010.

GENERALCAS N100

Copper And Copper Compounds

2.0M lb · -9% YoY

Copper And Copper Compounds concentrations have more than doubled since 2010.

CARCINOGENCAS N078

Cadmium And Cadmium Compounds

1.9M lb · +4% YoY

Cadmium And Cadmium Compounds concentrations are roughly unchanged from 2023.

CARCINOGENCAS N495

Nickel And Nickel Compounds

1.1M lb · -10% YoY

Nickel And Nickel Compounds concentrations have more than doubled since 2010.

PBTCAS N458

Mercury And Mercury Compounds

183k lb · -8% YoY

Mercury And Mercury Compounds concentrations are up 66% since 2010.

Equity context · ACS 2018-2022 block-group demographics

Who Lives Next To This Facility

Within 3 miles of this facility (3 Census block groups, population-weighted demographics): a population of 1,863. Why we surface this →

POPULATION SHARE
16.5%

Low-income

POPULATION SHARE
80.1%

People of color

POPULATION SHARE
8.5%

Under age 5

POPULATION SHARE
9.1%

Over age 64

Source: Census ACS 2018-2022 block-group demographics, population-weighted across the 3-mile buffer around this facility (from USEPA-clone/EJAM-open blockgroupstats). Indicator-level percentile and EJ-disparity scores are surfaced on the county page and the state page — they describe wider regional exposure burdens, not effects attributable to a single facility.

Source. EPA Toxics Release Inventory · retrieved 2026-05-07. Reporting year 2024. TRI is a federal public-domain dataset under 17 USC §105.

What this is not. TRI quantifies releases reported by the facility under EPCRA §313 — not ambient air or water concentrations measured at receptors. We do not attribute individual health outcomes to specific facilities; that exceeds what the data can support.