Kola MMC

The key operating assets of Kola MMC

Kola MMC is the largest industrial producer in the Murmansk region and is fully integrated into the transport infrastructure of the North-Western Federal District.

In the Kola MMC, three mines extract disseminated sulfide ores containing nickel, copper and other useful components from the Zhdanovskoye, Zapolyarnoye, Kotselvaara and Semiletka deposits.

Kola MMC mining assets

Deposit / Mine Type of mine Types of ore extracted
Zhdanovskoe deposit   copper and nickel sulfides
Tsentralny mine open pit disseminated
Severny-Gluboky mine(1) underground disseminated
     
Zapolyarnoe deposit   copper and nickel sulfides
Severny mine(1) underground disseminated
     
Kotselvaara and Semiletka deposits   copper and nickel sulfides
Kaula-Kotselvaara mine underground disseminated

Note:

(1)  Severny Gluboky mine was merged with Severny mine in 2005.

The extracted ore is processed at the Concentrator, producing collective copper and nickel concentrate. The Concentrator produces copper and nickel concentrate that is further transferred to the Roasting section of the Smelting shop for further processing.

Kola Peninsula’s refining capacities at Monchegorsk process both Kola Peninsula high-grade matte and matte received from the Polar Division. The key products are nickel and copper cathodes, carbonyl nickel, cobalt concentrate, precious metal concentrates and sulfuric acid.

The Company has outsourced the refining of precious metal concentrates from the Kola Peninsula under a tolling agreement to an independent precious metals refinery – Krasnoyarsk Precious Metals Plant.

Key data

Kola MMC ore mining and metals production

  2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002
Ore mining (thousand metric tonnes)
8149
7636
7634
6802
6692
6618
6908
 
Metals output (thousand metric tonnes)
Nickel
110
116
122
120
116
107
100
Copper
62
66
74
91
94
106
89