Zinc compounds
Zinc compounds releases at Nystar Gordonsville Mine & Mill fell from 2.9M lb to 982 lb (100% lower) between 2023 and 2024.
TRI facility · TRI 2024 reporting year
Nystar Gordonsville Mine & Mill
Total reported releases 995 lb more than halved year over year (-100%). Total releases concentrations have more than halved since 2010.
120 ZINC MINE CIR, Gordonsville, Tennessee · 212230 · Metal Mining · operated by Nyrstar US INC
Anomaly engine
Notable Signals
Lead compounds
Lead compounds releases at Nystar Gordonsville Mine & Mill fell from 30k lb to 3 lb (100% lower) between 2023 and 2024.
Copper compounds
Copper compounds at Nystar Gordonsville Mine & Mill have more than three-quarters since 2010 (through 2024).
Total reported releases
Total reported releases at Nystar Gordonsville Mine & Mill have more than three-quarters since 2010 (through 2024).
Showing the 4 most editorially weighted signals out of 5. Lower-severity signals fold into the chemical breakdown and history charts below.
Chemicals reported · most recent year
What This Facility Releases
Zinc compounds
Zinc compounds concentrations have more than halved since 2010.
Cadmium compounds
Cadmium compounds concentrations have more than halved since 2014.
Copper compounds
Copper compounds concentrations have more than halved since 2010.
Lead compounds
Lead compounds concentrations have more than halved since 2010.
Mercury compounds
Mercury compounds volumes here are too small to anchor a multi-year trend; YoY movement is still shown above.
Equity context · ACS 2018-2022 block-group demographics
Who Lives Next To This Facility
Smith County County, TN (no Census block groups within 3 miles — falling back to containing county): a population of 20,034. Why we surface this →
14.9%
Low-income
9.5%
People of color
5.0%
Under age 5
16.4%
Over age 64
Source: Census ACS 2018-2022 (5-year), county-level fallback. 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.