Trail zinc smelter

The Trail zinc smelter located in British Columbia, Canada is an electrolytic zinc smelting operation has both the typical Roast-Leach-Electrowin flowsheet alongside the direct pressure leaching of concentrates. It is operated by Teck Resources Ltd (Teck), previously known as Teck Cominco and has a slab zinc production capacity of 295kt/a. Wood Mackenzie’s asset reports are built from the bottom up, incorporating a number of granular data metrics to ultimately produce our industry standard cash operating costs. This report contains a detailed asset note giving you a holistic view of the asset, including an operational overview through to a timeline of events from inception to now. This qualitative analysis is supplemented by the associated Excel download which enables interrogation of a whole series of cost and production metrics over the life of the asset.