"NORILSKY NIKEL" WILL CONCLUDE THE LARGESTCONTRACT IN THE HISTORY OF RUSSIAN METALLURGY

A&G Information Services 12-02-2002 "NORILSKY NIKEL" WILL CONCLUDE THE LARGESTCONTRACT IN THE HISTORY OF RUSSIAN METALLURGY ST.PETERSBURG, RUSSIA, DEC 2, 2002 (A&G News via COMTEX) -- Thecompany agreed to purchase the third largestproducer of platinoids- American StillwaterMining Company- at $341 million. "Nornikel"expects that this transaction will allow thecompany to increase considerably the sale ofpalladium. The sale of platinoids- is the mainarticle of revenues of "Nornikel", 33% ...