Management MMC Norilsk Nickel approved the participation of organizations in the competition for the right to develop deposits of copper and nickel ore occurrences Elkinskom and Elan. According to preliminary calculations, the amount invested in the Norilsk case of winning the bid to these assets will be about 50 billion. Rubles. More precise numbers of MMC management promises to provide the organizers of the second stage of the competition.

Besides Norilsk Nickel, the auction will take part of the Ural Mining and Metallurgical Company. Each of the parties will have to pay a competitive fee of 90 thousand. Rubles. The event will hold the representatives of the Office of State Property in Russian subsoil. The contest will be held in mid-May of this year, and for the past 5 consecutive days the winner will be announced.

Norilsk Nickel's budget for the current year involves investment in the development of resource production assets, their capacity for enrichment, as well as in the production of metals (in the first place — nickel, copper, palladium, platinum) at 3 billion US dollars… And until 2025, in accordance with previously announced plans to MMC, the size of the company's investments in these areas will exceed the sum of $ 37 billion.