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Oktyabrsky and Talnakh mines (Norilsk)

Oktyabrsky and Talnakh mines (Norilsk), Russia. Producing, underground, mining nickel, copper, platinum, cobalt.

Why Oktyabrsky and Talnakh mines (Norilsk) is famous

The Talnakhskoye and Oktyabrskoye deposits near Norilsk are Nornickel's largest ore sources. The Polar Division mined 18.42 Mt of ore in 2019, including 5.37 Mt at the Oktyabrsky mine, 4.08 Mt at Taimyrsky and 4.00 Mt at Komsomolsky. The mines use slicing and chamber methods with cut-and-fill. Discovery and opening dates are not yet sourced from a page we opened.1,2

Story cards

Timeline

  1. 23 June 1935Construction of Norilsk combine begins3

What kind of deposit

Magmatic nickel-copper-PGE sulphide

Oktyabrsky and Talnakh mines (Norilsk) today

Where nickel is mined todayWhere copper is mined todayWhere platinum is mined todayWhere cobalt is mined todayMining in Russia

Where next

Events

Led toConstruction of Norilsk combine beginsRead what happened near Oktyabrsky and Talnakh mines (Norilsk): Construction of Norilsk combine begins.1

Places

Located inNorilskOktyabrsky and Talnakh mines (Norilsk) is about 22 km from Norilsk.1

Deposit types

An example ofMagmatic nickel-copper-PGE sulphideOktyabrsky and Talnakh mines (Norilsk) belongs to the magmatic nickel-copper-pge sulphide family of deposits.4

Sources

  1. Annual Report 2019, Polar Division and Medvezhy Ruchey, Taimyr Nornickel
  2. data/minerals/operations.csv (modern operations table) prospectortrails.com internal data
  3. Building Norilsk, chapter 7 of The Economics of Forced Labor: The Soviet Gulag Hoover Institution Press (S. Ertz)
  4. Mineral Deposit Models (Bulletin 1693, Cox and Singer, eds., 1986) US Geological Survey

From the Prospector Trails mining history dataset: each fact links to the source it was checked against. Figures are as the source gives them, in the money of their day. Not investment advice.

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