Russia: The Norilsk Nickel Company has begun excavations at the Mokulayevsky limestone mine in Talnakh. World Service Wire News has reported that the mine will supply limestone for a newly expanded flue gas desulphurisation installation at the company’s Nadezhda metallurgical plant in Norilsk, Krasnoyarsk Krai. The installation will generate gypsum from 0.9Mt/yr of captured SO2 emissions.
Arctic Development Project Office Expert Council Coordinator Alexander Vorotnikov said that the development will help to establish locally-sourced gypsum as a commercially-viable building product in this area of Siberia.
