{"id":7510,"date":"2012-01-30T21:20:35","date_gmt":"2012-01-30T19:20:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/01\/update-2-norilsk-says-nickel-output-may-rise-this-year\/"},"modified":"2012-01-30T21:20:35","modified_gmt":"2012-01-30T19:20:35","slug":"update-2-norilsk-says-nickel-output-may-rise-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/update-2-norilsk-says-nickel-output-may-rise-this-year\/","title":{"rendered":"UPDATE 2-Norilsk says nickel output may rise this year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Norilsk sees &#8217;12 nickel output at least 295,000 tonnes<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Palladium output seen above 2.6 million ounces<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Analysts says no major growth catalysts in short term<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Shares off 1.7 pct in Moscow, underperforming MICEX<\/p>\n<p> (Adds analyst comments, share price)<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Alfred Kueppers<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>MOSCOW, Jan 30 (Reuters) &#8211; Russia&#8217;s Norilsk Nickel<br \/>\n said on Monday its nickel output could recover<br \/>\nslightly this year, although analysts said the world&#8217;s largest<br \/>\nproducer of nickel and palladium could delay ramp-ups of its<br \/>\ninternational operations on cost concerns.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>For 2012, Norilsk forecast nickel output at 235,000 to<br \/>\n240,000 tonnes at its Russian divisions and 60,000 to 65,000 at<br \/>\nthe international operations.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>That adds up to as much or more than its total nickel output<br \/>\nin 2011 at 295,000 tonnes, which was down 0.8 percent from the<br \/>\nprevious year, including contributions from operations in<br \/>\nAustralia, Finland, Botswana and South Africa.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Russian metals giant, which takes its name from a mining<br \/>\ntown above the Arctic circle, is expected to keep Russian output<br \/>\nhigh, given that its Kola and Polar units have a negative<br \/>\nproduction cost thanks to their output of copper, platinum and<br \/>\npalladium as by-products.<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* Norilsk sees &#8217;12 nickel output at least 295,000 tonnes * Palladium output seen above 2.6 million ounces * Analysts says no major growth catalysts in short term * Shares off 1.7 pct in Moscow, underperforming MICEX (Adds analyst comments, share price) By Alfred Kueppers MOSCOW, Jan 30 (Reuters) &#8211; Russia&#8217;s Norilsk Nickel said on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[830,2370,183],"class_list":{"0":"post-7510","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-news","8":"tag-reuters","9":"tag-south-africa-2","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7510\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}