Norilsk Nickel Sees Drop in Production in South Africa

Mining Weekly reported MMC Norilsk Nickel (LSE:MNOD) has announced significant nickel production increases in its Southern African operations during the second quarter of this year.

As quoted in the market news:

Tati Nickel’s second-quarter output of 2 805 t of nickel in concentrate was a 7% improvement over its production in the first quarter, which came to 2 632 t. Production for the first half of this year was 5 438 t, which was also a 7% rise over the figure for the first half of last year, which was 5 071 t. In a press release, Norilsk attributed this success “to stable performance of the enrichment plant and optimisation of reagent flows in the flotation process”.

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