Norilsk Nickel (Russian: ГМК «Норильский никель» [3]), or Nornickel, [4] is a Russian nickel and palladium mining and smelting company. Its largest operations are located in the Norilsk–Talnakh area near the Yenisei River in the north of Siberia.

Norilsk Division is Nornickel’s flagship asset, located on the Taimyr Peninsula. More information about assets, capacities, volumes of ore mining and metal production.

In 2023, Norilsk Concentrator increased its ore processing to 8.4 mln t, up 0.7 mln t y-o-y. The resulting thickened concentrates from Talnakh and Norilsk Concentrators are transported via slurry pipelines to the metals operations of the Norilsk Division for further processing.

In 2023, Norilsk Concentrator increased its ore processing to 8.4 mln t, up 0.7 mln t y‑o‑y. The resulting thickened concentrates from Talnakh and Norilsk Concentrators are transported via slurry pipelines to the metals operations of the Norilsk Division for further processing.

In 2020, the Norilsk Division accounted for 72% copper 42% PGMs of the Group’s total The Norilsk Division is the Group’s flagship assets boasting a full metals production cycle from ore mining to the shipment of finished products to customers. They are located on the Taimyr Peninsula in Russia,

Apr 26, 2023 · But open pits were the fastest way to get to the ore. And to combat drifts, the Norilsk people developed a system of snow shields. The combine head Avraamy Zavenyagin himself defended the open method option.

The Norilsk Division mine copper-nickel sulphide ores of three grades: rich ores, characterised by a higher content of base and precious metals; cuprous ores, with a higher copper content vs nickel; and disseminated ores, with a lower content of all metals.

Dec 1, 2021 · In 1940, the Ugolny Ruchey (Coal Creek) mine began operations – the first open pit mine in the Arctic. On August 29, the first explosion thundered and with almost complete lack of equipment overburden operations began.

Apr 8, 2022 · In the technical project, local experts proved that open-pit mining was possible, that snow can fight itself: a system of shields would create barriers to protect the mine from drifts. Zavenyagin managed to persuade the country authorities.

Nov 29, 2012 · Ore from Norilsk pits goes through several processing steps before turning into shiny plates of saleable copper. First, ore is granulated, dried and prepared for the Vanyukov furnaces, some of...