Nornickel Resumes Mining at Taimyrsky

Nornickel, the world’s largest producer of palladium and high-grade nickel and a major producer of platinum and copper, began to gradually restart ore mining at the Taimyrsky underground mine on June 1 and plans to advance the mine’s operations to full capacity in the near future. Currently, the mine has reached a mined volume of 5,000 metric tons per day (mt/d), which is about 40% of the design capacity.

“Water from the horizons of the Taimyrsky mine has been pumped out,” said Nikolay Utkin, senior vice president of Norilsk Nickel and head of the Norilsk Division. “Today, our main goal is to reinforce the underground workings to ensure the safety of our employees. We will be gradually scaling up mining as we take these measures. The mine is expected to reach its design capacity of 12,100 mt/d by the end of June 2021.”

As previously announced, the final stage of recovery operations at the Taimyrsky mine (4.3 million mt/y of ore) is expected to be fully completed by the end of June. 2022.

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