Amid trade tensions, Teck extends lifeline to abandoned Idaho mine to expand zinc operations

Open this photo in gallery: Teck’s Highland Valley Copper mine in British Columbia’s Interior, on March 26, 2017.JONATHAN HAYWARD/The Canadian Press Teck Resources Ltd. TECK-B-T is playing a key role in a US$60-million financing and debt restructuring for the developer of a northern U.S. mine that will bring the two businesses together at a time of cross-border trade acrimony. Vancouver-based Teck is buying a US$40-million equity stake in junior miner Bunker Hill Mining Corp. BNKR-X, which is redeveloping a shuttered mine near Coeur d'Alene, Idaho. The Bunker Hill mine will produce zinc and lead concentrate, silver and trace amounts of…