The 15th Technical Committee has gathered the representatives of the two partners, SMSP and POSCO as well as the technicians of the two mining and metallurgical subsidiaries, NMC and SNNC. The schedule of this Committee was emphasized on the various stages of the production chain, beginning with the extraction of ore, its processing (sorting, haulage,...
SMSP / POSCO partnership decides to proceed to the expansion of its ferronickels production capacity. The SNNC Plant, with a nominal capacity of 30,000 tons of nickel metal contained in ferronickels, will increase its capacity of 24,000 additional tons, that is to say a total capacity of 54,000 tons. A second line, comprising a new...
The implementation of the double shift has allowed NMC to reach the objective of production, that is 1.763.986 tonnes of saprolite ore, with the creation of 118 additional jobs in mining sites. The volume of nickel metal contained in ferronickel produced by SNNC in 2010 is 20.512 tonnes with sales to POSCO reaching 21.388 tonnes.
