Upstream facilities

Investment projects to develop mines in the Norilsk Industrial District will ramp up their output from 24 mln t to 26 mln t of ore by 2025.

Skalisty Mine

Rich and cuprous ores from the Talnakhskoye deposit.

2020

Mining
2.5  mln t of ore
Investments
RUB 8 bn
(USD 109 mln)

2021–2025

Maintaining ore production at levels of
up to  2.5 mln t
Investments
RUB 49 bn
(USD 0.7 bn)

Komsomolsky Mine

Rich, сuprous and disseminated ores from the Talnakhskoye and Oktyabrskoye deposits.

2020

Mining
4.3 mln t of ore
Investments
RUB 3.8  bn
(USD 51 mln)

2021–2023

Maintaining ore production at levels of
up to  4.2 mln t
Investments
RUB 9.7  bn
(USD 0.1 bn)

Mayak MineExcluding the comprehensive development of Mayak Mine.

Rich and disseminated ores from the Talnakhskoye deposit.

2020

Mining
0.8 mln t of ore
Investments
RUB 0.6  bn
(USD 8 mln)

2021–2023

Maintaining ore production at levels of
up to  1.0 mln t
Investments
RUB 20.3  bn
(USD 0.3 bn)

Taimyrsky Mine

Rich ores from the Oktyabrskoye deposit.

2020

Mining
4.24 mln t of ore
Investments
RUB 7.1  bn
(USD 97 mln)

2021–2023

Maintaining ore production at levels of
up to  4.25 mln t
Investments
RUB 21.0  bn
(USD 0.3 bn)

Oktyabrsky Mine

Rich, сuprous and disseminated ores from the Oktyabrskoye deposit.

2020

Mining
5.3 mln t of ore
Investments
RUB 1.1  bn
(USD 16 mln)

2021–2023

Maintaining ore production at levels of
up to  5.0 mln t
Investments
RUB 27.0  bn
(USD 0.4 bn)

South Cluster

In 2017, Nornickel established Medvezhy Ruchey, a wholly-owned subsidiary that operates the assets of the South Cluster. The South Cluster comprises the Norilsk Concentrator (9.3 Mtpa), an open-pit and an underground mine at Zapolyarny Mine, and tailing dumps No. 1 and Lebyazhye.

The Norilsk Concentrator processes all disseminated ores from Zapolyarny Mine and cuprous and disseminated ores from the Oktyabrskoye and Talnakhskoye deposits. In 2020, the plant processed 7.6 mln t of ore.

Ore production is planned to be ramped up to 9.0 mln t by 2027 (750–850 koz of platinum group metals, 13 kt of nickel, 20 kt of copper).

2020

Mining
1.7 mln t of ore
Investments
RUB 8.3  bn
(USD 114 mln)