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Norilsk Nickel Smelter (Taimyr Peninsula)
Nornickel's main smelting and processing complex in Norilsk, Krasnoyarsk Krai, located on the Taimyr Peninsula in the Russian Arctic at 69°N — one of the world's most remote industrial cities (~175,000 inhabitants, accessible only by air or via Yenisei River when ice-free). The Norilsk complex processes nickel-copper-palladium sulfide ore from the world's largest known deposits of nickel-copper-PGM ore. Norilsk operations are the source of approximately 10% of global Class 1 nickel. The city of Norilsk was built by Gulag labor under Stalin; the copper-nickel smelters have emitted SO2 at levels that killed all vegetation within 24,000 sq km surrounding the city — one of the largest industrial dead zones on Earth. A 2020 fuel tank collapse at a Nornickel subsidiary spilled 21,000 tonnes of diesel into the Ambarnaya River, Russia's largest oil spill since 1994. Nornickel has pledged billions in environmental remediation. Source: Nornickel Annual Report 2023; Greenpeace Russia; Reuters 2020 Norilsk spill.
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