Capacity of 220 people to be increased to 400 in 2023

First production in 2004

6 diesel generators servicing mine and camp

Underground mining operation, conventional drilling and blasting, with loading by underground loaders and transportation by underground dump trucks

Self-built and maintained private gravel road with a length of 180 km, 114 bridges

Year-round access to the federal road and the port

Total distance from mine to port Petropavlovsk-Kamchatka 480 km

Today: direct shipping ore concentrate, crushed, with a nickel content of min. 4%

Tomorrow: nickel concentrate Ni min. 9.5%, copper concentrate Cu min. 15%

Construction of a nickel processing plant (flotation) within the next 2 years

First stage annual throughput capacity of 150,000 tons ROM

Metallurgical study completed

Flowsheet study completed

Engineering, design and construction study will be completed end of 4th quarter 2022.

All studies done by scientific research institute Irgiredmet Irkutsk, Russia

Start of groundwork preparation in 2nd quarter 2022