MMC Norilsk Nickel Shows Signification Production Increase in African Operations

Mining Weekly reported that Russia’s mining group, MMC Norilsk Nickel, was able to significantly increase its output for 2012 in its African operations, boosting its global nickel production to 2%.

As quoted in the market news:

Nkomati demonstrated an even more dramatic production increase, of 66%. Norilsk’s 50% share of the mine’s output came to 9 624 t of nickel in concentrate shipped to the Russian group’s Harjavalta smelter, in Finland. In 2011, its share was 5 815 t.

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