Norilsk Nickel.

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"Norilsk Nickel" - the largest in Russia and one of the largest companies in the world for the production of precious and base metals.
Polar Division of MMC "Norilsk Nickel" is located in the Norilsk industrial district on the Taimyr Peninsula in the Krasnoyarsk Territory, which is located entirely within the Arctic Circle.
Connections branch to other regions of the country via the Yenisei river and the Northern Sea Route (only during the warmer months), as well as by air.

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2.Norilsk - a city in the north of the Krasnoyarsk Territory, 90 km to the east of the Yenisei. His appearance, he is obliged to build the world's largest mining and, at the same time, metalproducing plant. Analogues industrial area "Norilsk" (including the city) anywhere in the world is no longer available.



3.Vid on Leninsky Prospekt, the Old City and Mount Shmidtiha.
Norilsk - the second largest in terms of population in the world, a city located in the Arctic Circle after Murmansk.
Total in Norilsk industrial region is home to more than 170 thousand people. It is surprising that in spite of the harsh climate, living here is not "shift workers" and generations of families who are not going to go anywhere.



4. In the city there are polar days and polar nights.
Polar day at latitude Norilsk lasts about 2 months (the sun goes around the circle without touching the horizon), polar night lasts about 1, 5 months old (the streets of complete darkness, and the light is switched off).



5.Gvardeyskaya area and Leninsky Prospekt - the main squares and streets of the city.
The architecture of many buildings in Norilsk traced stylistic similarities with the architecture of Leningrad / St Petersburg - is explained by the fact that participated in the construction of Norilsk Leningrad architects.



6.Talnahskoe field. Rudnik "Taimyr»
To descend into the mine cage used.
The deepest cage shaft goes into the ground at 1532 meters!



7.Dispetchersky remote trunk lift installation.
The cage is lowered to a depth of more than a kilometer in 5-7 minutes.



8.Gorizont "minus 1,100 meters."
On this level is a kind of "waiting room."
The starting point under the ground - passenger station, by the way one of the deepest in the world.



9.Puti for mine trolleys



10.Podzemnye trains are driven by electricity, which is fed through the contact wire



11.Gorny passenger transport



12.Razvitaya system of underground roads to the mines in the thousands (!!!) kilometers.



13.Samohodnaya rig during the drilling of a vertical well



14.Kabina driller



15.Manipulyator self-propelled drilling rig



16.Gornaya development



17.Otgruzka rock mass by means of loading and delivery machines (VSD)
Load of PDM - 14 tons, the volume of the bucket about 4, 7 cubic meters, power - 335 horsepower



18.Perednee wheel loader Haul
The chain wheel is dressed to save wear



19.Interesno that before the start of excavation excavation driver leaves the VSD.
Further work is carried out using the remote control, and the driver stays away at a safe distance and controls the loading. Once the bucket is full, the driver returned to the cab and sent to the discharge



20.Temperatura in the mine is much higher than on the surface and can exceed 30 degrees Celsius due to the proximity to the bowels of the earth. Comfortable work environment supported only by a powerful ventilation



21.Kamera tipper.
Slightly lower tumblers mounted crushing plants, where the ore is crushed to the required fraction, and then sent to the conveyors Dosing and from there on the surface.



22.Tseh repair and maintenance of underground mining equipment



23.Nadezhdinsky Metallurgical Plant. BI Kolesnikova
It arrives here extracted and enriched ore.
Pyrometallurgical production processes nickel and copper concentrates Talnakh concentrator, hydrometallurgical production of sulfide concentrate and copper concentrate CPF Nickel Plant.



24.Tseh pouring into molds nickel matte



25.Konverternoe office. Unloading of slag in the ladle.



26.Plavilny shop



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29.Mashinist bridge crane



30.Pozhaluy, it is the most responsible and the most "hot" work in the converter department.
It manages the crane directly from above the molten metal



31.Dyshat inside the converter branch only through a mask



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33.Mehanizirovannaya cleaning converter



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35.Anodnye furnace



36.Otlivka copper mold



37.Gotovoy products of the plant are: matte, copper anodes and elementary sulfur. Feinstein sent for further processing at the Nickel Plant and Plant "Severonikel" anode copper - by Copper Plant.



38. That's all. Thank you for your attention.



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