KOMSOMOLSKY MINE AS A PART OF THE TALNAKH DEPOSIT
Complex copper-nickel ore of Norilsk gives nonferrous metals of nickel, copper and cobalt, noble metals of gold, silver and key platinum group metals such as platinum, paladium and rhodium, as wel as associate metals of iridium, osmium, ruthenium, selenium and tellurium. Commission of Nadezhda steel works initiated extraction of sulfur. Komsomolsky Mine operates in the unique gas conditions. Mining operations cause rock bursts, micro-shocks and outburst, bumps, spalling, foliation and overhands in the area of the mine field.