A major Alaska mine could end up in the crossfire of Trump’s trade war with Canada

By Max Graham, Northern Journal – Alaska Beacon

Canadian officials have been scrambling in recent weeks to convince President Donald Trump to abandon his threat of sweeping tariffs on Canadian imports.  

One point of leverage? Alaska’s Red Dog mine.

Red Dog — a huge open-pit operation in Northwest Alaska — is the largest zinc mine in the world, and a major U.S. source of both zinc and a little-known but essential byproduct, germanium. 

But before those materials wind up in American products, they get refined in Canada, then sent back to the U.S.