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Norilsk Nickel signed its key deal on June 28, 2007, acquiring about 90 percent of Canada's LionOre Mining International Ltd, the world's tenth-largest nickel producer at the time. This takeover, valued at $6.4 billion, was the biggest foreign acquisition by a Russian company at the time, making Norilsk Nickel the world's largest nickel producer.
In Russia, which was the world's leading nickel producing country, more than 90% of nickel was produced by Norilsk Nickel, which mined deposits of mixed sulfide ores mainly near Norilsk in East Siberia, but also on the Kola Peninsula. The projected long-term ore output for Norilsk Nickel in 2005 was raised to 22 Mt/yr.
Norilsk is a center of non-ferrous metallurgy and is home to mining giant Norilsk Nickel's mining operations. [61] The smelting of the nickel ore is directly responsible for severe pollution, which generally takes the form of acid rain and smog. By some estimates, Norilsk's nickel mines produce one percent of global sulfur dioxide (SO 2 ...
The war in Ukraine has sent nickel prices skyrocketing in recent weeks, raising investor interest in nickel mining companies. Russia produces 7% of the world’s nickel and risks of supply ...
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However, despite these efforts, the mining areas continue to suffer from a high level of pollution. [22] He converted Norilsk's gold-mining interests into the US$8.5 billion corporation Polyus Gold, Russia's largest gold producer. In 2003, he oversaw the acquisition of Stillwater Mining, his first international venture.
Norilsk Nickel is the world’s leading producer of the high-purity Class 1 nickel that electric vehicle industry leaders like Tesla CEO Elon Musk are seeking. The company’s ambitions coincide ...
However, reserves of rich ores Norilsk Combine (the main production facility) provided only 12 – 15 years, after which the testing of sulfide of nickel ores may become uneconomical. In this regard, the discovery of new deposits of rich ores in the Norilsk region is becoming a priority task not only of Russian, but also of world importance. [12]