The Zapolyarny subsidiary of Norilsk Nickel will this year receive 55 units of special mining machinery valued at 1.6 billion rubles. The largest number of machines (17) will be sent to the Komsomolsky mine, 13 units – to Taymyrsky mine, 10 – to Mayak, 7 – to Oktyabrskiy, 6 – to Kayerkanskiy and 2 –…
In 2017 Norilsk Nickel decreased nickel output by 8% YoY, to 217.112 thousand tons. According to the company statement, copper output grew by 11%, to 401.083 thousand tons. Palladium manufacture increased by 6%, to 2.78 million ounces, and platinum – by 4%, to 670 thousand ounces. The company operational director Sergey Dyachenko said, that in…
PJSC MMC Norilsk Nickel announces the signing of a 5-year $2.5 billion facility agreement with the syndicate of international financial institutions. Taking advantage of the current market conditions the company achieved favorable terms of the syndicated loan supported by the considerable demand from a number of American, European and Asian banks. The proceeds will be…
A pool of banks will provide Norilsk Nickel with a loan of $2.5 billion. Among roughly 15 lenders will be Raiffeisenbank, Unicredit Bank, China Construction Bank, Citibank, HSBC, J. P. Morgan, etc. The total sum of the deal, including interest and commissions, is 18.14% of Nornickel assets cost as of September 30. At that time…
Mining and metallurgic company Norilsk Nickel plans to issue green Eurobonds until the end of 2018, Deputy Chairman of the Board Andrei Bugrov said at a central bank meeting. “There have been no green bond issues on the domestic market yet. Norilsk Nickel is discussing an option to issue the instrument to support a program…
Norilsk Nickel plans to invest 250 billion rubles in projects aimed at improving the ecology of its manufacture. “Of them the sulfur project will cost over 160 billion rubles. The rest is other environment-protection projects dealing with waste, gases, etc.”, the company vice-president Elena Bezdenezhnykh said. The primary goal for 2018 is the regulation of…
Norilsk Nickel intends to have received the first gold-containing concentrate at its Bystrinsky Mining and Processing Works in late 2017. The operation of the second grinding line began on November 16 and would be finished not later than on December 10. “The construction of the processing factory has been completed in the record-short time. Now…
Russian metals producers UC RUSAL and Norilsk Nickel have abandoned an idea of a merger, key owner of Norilsk Nickel Vladimir Potanin said on November 29. “We have agreed with Oleg Deripaska, president and key beneficiary of RUSAL, that Norilsk Nickel and RUSAL are different companies and no synergy is visible. This is why they…