Company Overview
Talvivaara Mining Company Plc. Is an internationally significant base metals producer with its primary focus on nickel and zinc. Talvivaara´s main asset is the Talvivaara nickel mine in Sotkamo, Finland. The Talvivaara polymetallic deposits, Kuusilampi and Kolmisoppi, comprise one of the largest known sulphide nickel resources in Europe with 1 121 million tonnes of ore in measured and indicated categories, sufficient to support an anticipated production for several decades. Production at the mine started in October 2008 with the precipitation of the first metal sulphides. The planned annual nickel production is 50,000 tonnes and as by-products the mine will also produce aprox. 90,000 tpa of zinc, aprox.15,000 tpa of copper and c.1,800 tpa of cobalt.