September 15, 2022
How copper is made: from the ore to the finished product.
Norilsk walkabout – done. Norilsk borsch – supped, and already yearning for more.
Next up – an inspection of the industrial-technological processes upon which the city of Norilsk grew, and which still produces a broad spectrum of the elements from the periodic table.
Nornickel was kind enough to show us practically the whole process of the production of copper: extraction > fine crushing > preparation > smelting > electrolysis > dispatching. All that, coming up in this post…
First up for us – safety talk, down there on the ground floor (next to that pond in which carp swim!) ->