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Article: RUSSIA: RUSSIA RESTARTS EXPORTS OF PLATINUM.(Norilsk Nickel)(Brief Article)
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- IPR Strategic Business Information Database
- Article date:
- April 25, 2000
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Norilsk Nickel announced on 20 April that it has resumed exporting platinum and rhodium. Norilsk is the world's largest producer of platinum, usually providing some 20 percent of the world's supply. However, it had stopped exporting because a law deprived Almazyuvelireksport--Russia's sole exporting agency for precious metals and gems--the right to export platinum-group metals, Reuters reported. Yevgeny Ivanov, vice chairman of Rosbank, part of the Interros financial-industrial group that controls ...