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	Norilsk - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The settlement of Norilsk was founded by the end of 1920s; however, the official date of founding is traditionally set to 1935, when Norilsk was expanded as a settlement for the Norilsk mining-metallurgic complex and became the center of Norillag system of GULAG labor camps.
		Norilsk, located between the West Siberian Plain and Central Siberian Plateau at the foot of the 1,700-metre-high Putoran Mountains, is situated on some of the largest nickel deposits on Earth, at 69°21′N 88°12′E Consequently, mining and smelting ore are the major industries.
		Norilsk is the center of a region where nickel, copper, cobalt, platinum, and coal are mined.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Norilsk (710 words)

	TNI Publications (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Norilsk Nickel was considered an oasis of social prosperity, and the city a model of political stability.
		Norilsk Nickel's miners don't compete with their poorly paid compatriots or with half-starved miners in Africa.
		Norilsk's workforce is stable, and the workers are confident.
	www.tni.org /archives/kagarlitsky/norilsk.htm (681 words)

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		Norilsk is run by a shady Russian industrial conglomerate called Interros, though its board includes, among others, an ex-senior official of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) and its auditors are Deloitte and Touche - reflecting the fact that the company rasies a considerable amount of capital on London's Stock Exchange.
		Norilsk is caught in a meteorological trap - stacks to its east, west and south mean the city is hit whichever way the wind blows.
		Norilsk's children bear the brunt, perhaps, keen to break out of the cycle of fathers and sons who live, work and die around the factories.
	www.minesandcommunities.org /Action/press139.htm (1706 words)

	Historical Gallery
		In Norilsk, an industrial complex and former penal colony in Siberia, the most prominent memorials so far, like the one at right to Polish prisoners, were built by non-Russian republics, now free of the Soviet bloc, whose citizens died in the Soviet gulag.
		Norilsk is inseparable from its grim history, but people here remain deeply ambivalent about that.
		Norilsk Nickel, the private mining and metallurgical company that emerged from the vast state enterprise that has always dominated the city, has erected placards extolling the history of its factories, without noting that the builders shown in fl-and-white photographs were slaves.
	www.artukraine.com /historical/norilsk.htm (1089 words)

	Is Rio Tinto about to commit a massive error? Or make a huge pile? And is there any real difference between the two?
		Norilsk supplies most of Russia’s copper and cobalt, is the world’s biggest vendor of nickel and palladium, and second among global platinum producers.
		It was Norilsk’s operations that, for many, represented the worst case example of the Soviet state’s inhumanity to its citizens.
		Norilsk is underpinned by a shady Russian industrial conglomerate called Interros, although its board includes, among others, an ex-senior official of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD); its auditors are Deloitte and Touche and a key adviser is the Robert Fleming Investment Bank, both London-based.
	www.minesandcommunities.org /Action/press900.htm (2022 words)

	Russia, Norilsk, Foreigners Banned
		Norilsk's closure is unusual because authorities are not citing military secrecy as the motive, but simply the desire to keep the city free of outsiders.
		Norilsk, population 230,000, is home to the giant Norilsk Nickel firm and other industrial plants but was never listed among the closed Soviet cities.
		Norilsk Mayor Oleg Budarin said in an interview on Russian television that foreigners who want to visit Norilsk must have invitations from companies or organizations, which must report the visit to the FSB, the main successor to the KGB.
	www.cdi.org /russia/Johnson/5534-5.cfm (693 words)

	Fin24 : Norilsk to spin off gold ops (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Norilsk said in a statement it has set the record date for the EGM as August 11.
		Norilsk is Russia's largest miner, having bought Polyus, operator of the Olimpiade field in eastern Siberia, three years ago.
		Norilsk said that it will offer to buy out shareholders who vote against the spinoff at a price of 1 855 rubles a share.
	www.fin24.co.za /articles/shares/display_article.asp?Nav=tr&lvl2=share&ArticleID=1518-1783_1754729 (323 words)

	LIFE: NORILSK
		Norilsk's three enormous smelters are an ongoing environmental disaster, spewing some 2.8 million metric tons of sulphur dioxide per year into the atmosphere, six times the emissions of the entire U.S. nonferrous metals industry.
		When the prison-camp was disbanded in 1955 the machines of Norilsk had taken root where few men could survive.
		Today the world's largest producer of nickel and palladium is the bleak heart of a city whose people have always owed their souls to the company store.
	www.life.com /Life/essay/norilsk/machine.html (241 words)

	Norilsk: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
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	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/n/no/norilsk.htm (382 words)

	TheHamptons.com: Words (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The town is the home of Norilsk Nickel, a metals and mining conglomerate that produces enormous quantities of nickel, copper and cobalt, as well as cartloads of precious metals like platinum, gold silver and palladium.
		Norilsk Nickel is responsible for the welfare of all its 155,000 employees and their families.
		When Norilsk was privatized last June, management and workers got half the company's stock, the government held on to 38%, while 12% went to outside investors, including Oneximbank(Russia's second largest commercial bank) and CS First Boston (buying for its own account and for Western hedge funds).
	thehamptons.com /words/klebnikov.html (1527 words)

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		People on the streets of Norilsk often have to breathe through their handkerchiefs to keep from coughing.
		The copper and nickel plants were built a long time ago, during the days when Norilsk was populated mainly by "enemies of the people" and convicted criminals, whose health was not of great concern to anyone.
		Residents of Norilsk visited a doctor's office an average of at least 13 times each last year, according to municipal health department figures.
	www.francnord.ca /archives1/Norilsk.htm (702 words)

	Business Report - Norilsk's endgame in Gold Fields battle baffles everyone
		Norilsk's support of Harmony's bid is believed to have been triggered by the Iamgold transaction, in terms of which Gold Fields would reverse list its international assets into the Toronto-listed gold mining and exploration firm.
		Apparently, Moscow is investigating whether Norilsk contravened any of that country's foreign exchange controls with the deal, which at the time was the largest transaction a Russian company had ever made outside of the homeland.
		Norilsk can't sell its stake to Harmony, because Harmony doesn't have the money, besides which it has to stump up R490 million in January for an interest payment.
	www.busrep.co.za /index.php?fSetId=261&fSectionId=553&fArticleId=2296457 (1433 words)

	Norilsk (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Norilsk is a large mining town in the polar regions of western Siberia.
		This is at least geologically incorrect, since Norilsk is part of the Siberian platform which is separated from the Taimyr platform by the Khatanga rift zone.
		North of Norilsk is the Khatanga rift zone which separates the Siberian platform from the Taimyr platform.
	maurice.strahlen.org /siberia/norilsk.htm (744 words)

	Norilsk (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Norilsk, a city in the Krasnoyarsk region, is located on Taimyr Peninsula.
		Norilsk was raised into the status of a city in 1953.
		The modern Norilsk is an industrial and scientific centre of the region, one of five most northern cities of the world.
	www.tourintel.ru /online/gettowndescription.asp?id=108 (103 words)

	Norilsk Mulls Mongolian Copper Venture
		It quoted a letter by Dzhonson Khagazheyev, CEO of Norilsk's core unit, the Norilsk Mining Company, to Mongolian Prime Minister Nambariin Enkhbayar, which, it said, had been made public by Norilsk's press office.
		Norilsk's spokesman Anatoly Komrakov confirmed the existence of the letter, but he called it an internal document, which was not meant for publication.
		Norilsk Nickel in 1996 stopped releasing its output and export figures in tonnes, but this year it said its copper exports rose to 305,700 tonnes in the first nine months of this year from 290,600 in January-September 1999.
	www.themoscowtimes.com /stories/2000/11/23/172-print.html (233 words)

	The St. Petersburg Times - Business - Who Really Needs Norilsk?
		Norilsk as it exists today - as cruel as this may sound - is of no use to anyone at all.
		Norilsk Nickel, which was in many ways responsible for creating this situation, has apparently chosen to pursue a rather contemplative and passive policy.
		Moreover, Norilsk Nickel is gradually handing over its social commitments to the municipal government and thus slowly deepening the crisis in the region.
	www.sptimes.ru /story/2824 (1310 words)

	Norilsk Stock Drops On Share Swap News
		Shares in metals giant Norilsk Nickel fell 3.99 percent Tuesday to $7.83 after it said it intended to ask shareholders to swap for shares of subsidiary Norilsk Mining Co., or NGK, which would be listed locally and then abroad.
		Norilsk Nickel has already conducted one restructuring: All valuable company assets located in the Krasnoyarsk region and on the Kolsky peninsula were transferred to NGK and the Kolsky mining company, respectively, and workers were moved to the new enterprises.
		Norilsk's press service Monday told Vedomosti that NGK is not 100 percent owned by Norilsk Nickel.
	www.themoscowtimes.com /stories/2000/09/20/033-print.html (643 words)

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		NORILSK, RUSSIA -- Long before you reach the city, Norilsk announces itself with mounds of dirty flened snow on the fragile grass of the summer tundra.
		One fact is beyond dispute: Norilsk Nickel is the heaviest polluter in all of Russia, a remarkable feat in a country with an abysmal environmental record.
		Canadian anthropologist David Anderson, who has travelled with aboriginal Evenki reindeer herders in a region south of Norilsk, has documented how the herders have been forced to move as far as 250 kilometres from their home villages because their traditional pastures were destroyed by sulphur dioxide and heavy metals from Norilsk.
	www.jatam.org /english/case/inco/view_news.asp?ID=75 (885 words)

	Asia Times
		Norilsk Nickel is Russia's largest mining enterprise, the world's largest nickel producer, and rival to South African miners in the production of platinum and palladium.
		Valery Melnikov, chairman of the Federation of Trade Unions of Norilsk Nickel, said "The strike [threat] is very real." He sharply attacked Prokhorov, the chief executive of the company, who was one of the founding shareholders, with Potanin, of the group that seized control of Norilsk Nickel in 1996.
		Norilsk Nickel managers accuse him of bandying the strike threat to improve his election chances.
	www.atimes.com /atimes/Central_Asia/EA23Ag01.html (1404 words)

	Russia, Norilsk, Xenophobia
		Norilsk, which is beyond the polar circle, is being closed again.
		Norilsk, the northernmost city in Russia, was built as an isolated industrial centre for the development of enormous non-ferrous and precious metal deposits: nickel, platinum and copper.
		However, according to the city administration, the new rules for visiting Norilsk will take about four months to be fully introduced and only after that foreign citizens will be allowed entry into the city only if they have a Russian visa or an invitation from an employer or a relative.
	www.cdi.org /russia/Johnson/5563-13.cfm (574 words)

	Interros : “Interros”’ Assets : “Norilsk Nickel”
		MMC «Norilsk Nickel»; is the world’s biggest producer of palladium and nickel, a fourth platinum producer in the world, and one of the top producers of gold and copper.
		«Norilsk Nickel»; is one of the leaders in the national economy – its enterprises account for 4.3% of the Russian export.
		MMC «Norilsk Nickel»; is one of the first companies to comply its financial report with the international standards, thus contributing to the expansion of its cooperation with big foreign investors and attraction of funds from the international capital market.
	www.interros.ru /eng/assets/nornikel?print=yes (1182 words)

	LIFE: NORILSK (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The people of Norilsk can "cope with anything," says mining industry specialist Doug Upton, head of commodity research at London's HSBC Securities.
		Respected by rival companies for its ability to make do with limited resources, especially during the harsh winter months when few supplies reach the city, Norilsk is the MIR of the mining industry.
		And with some 50 years of projected ore reserves in the ground, Norilsk, and its citizens, are here for the long haul.
	www.life.com /Life/essay/norilsk/norilsk.html (166 words)

	Bloomberg.com: Top Worldwide (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Norilsk bought 20 percent of Gold Fields, the world's fourth- biggest gold miner, from Anglo American Plc for 77.50 rand a share, 7 percent less than Friday's closing price.
		Norilsk is the world's biggest producer of nickel and palladium.
		Norilsk shares rose $2, or 2.7 percent, to $75 as of 2:50 p.m.
	quote.bloomberg.com /apps/news?pid=10000006&sid=arafz3pHoXtY&refer=home (671 words)

	Kommersant: Norilsk Nickel Vs. Guta Group
		Norilsk Nickel (46 percent in City Co.) blames other majority holder — Guta Group, which owns 37 percent in the company, for having ruined the meeting.
		GMK Norilsk Nickel is another big holder; its affiliates bought out in April around 32 percent in the company from vodka baron Yury Shefler’s SPI.
		Norilsk Nickel ignored the meeting and challenged its resolutions in court.
	www.kommersant.com /page.asp?id=588258 (537 words)

	Norilsk Nickel to Invest $341 Million in Stillwater Mining In Exchange for Majority Interest
		In addition Stillwater and Norilsk Nickel will negotiate an agreement, to be entered into within six months after closing, whereby Stillwater will purchase at least one million ounces of palladium annually from Norilsk Nickel for subsequent resale to Stillwater customers pursuant to long-term marketing contracts.
		Norilsk Nickel is one of the world's leading mining companies and is the world's largest producer of nickel and palladium.
		Norilsk Nickel is also one of the leading suppliers of copper, cobalt, gold, platinum and other platinum group metals to the world markets.
	www.prnewswire.com /cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/11-20-2002/0001845693&EDATE= (1699 words)

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