Location | |
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Location | Sotkamo |
Region | Kainuu |
Country | Finland |
Production | |
Products | Nickel, Copper, Zinc, Cobalt |
Production | 20,864 tons nickel; 47,205 tons zinc [1] |
Financial year | 2017 |
Type | Open-pit |
History | |
Opened | 2008[2] |
Owner | |
Company | Terrafame |
Website |
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Year of acquisition | 2015 [3] |
The Talvivaara mine is one of the largest nickel mines in Finland. [4] The mine is located in Sotkamo in Kainuu region of Finland. The mine is owned by government-established Terrafame, which bought it from the bankruptcy-bound Talvivaara Mining Company in 2015. [3] Its annual production capacity is over 10 million tonnes of ore. The mine has reserves amounting to 1 billion tonnes of ore grading 0.22% nickel, 0.13% copper, 0.5% zinc and 0.02% cobalt thus resulting 2.2 million tonnes of nickel, 1.3 million tonnes of copper, 5 million tonnes of zinc and 0.2 million tonnes of cobalt. [4]
The mine had suffered several leaks of toxic metal-contaminated tailings, which had threatened local waterways. Members of the management were charged with criminal environmental offenses. [5]