Norilsk Nickel and Russian Platinum have signed an agreement on strategic partnership, which presupposes the creation by the end of the year of a joint venture to develop three deposits with the possible reserves of 70-100 tons of platinum group metals a year, which will make it one of the largest manufacturers. Each company will…
In mid-December Russian Platinum submitted a new development project of the Chernogorskoye platinum-copper-nickel deposits to the Federal Agency of Subsoil Use. The company intends to start mining in January 2021. In case of the positive reply from the agency, the company will have 36 months to construct a mining and processing works at the site…
Russian Platinum group of companies plans to start production of ore at the copper, nickel and platinum-group metals fields Norilsk-1 and Chernogorskoye in 2020, earlier than 2023 and 2022, respectively, envisaged by licenses for the fields. A representative of the Federal Mineral Resources Agency said the company had not requested changes in deadlines for launches…
China National Gold Group (China Gold) is interested in Musa Bazhayev’s Russian Platinum’s projects in Russia and Kyrgyzstan with investments of up to $4.6 billion. These are the Chernogorskoye and Norilsk-1 polymetallic fields on the Taimyr Peninsula and the Jerooy gold deposit in Kyrgyzstan. Russian Platinum confirmed talks with China Gold, but said it was…