Krastsvetmet Factory
Description:
In 1939, the Central Committee of the CPSU (b) and the Council of People’s Commissars of the USSR adopted a resolution on the construction of a refinery in Krasnoyarsk. However, the plant itself began to be built in March 1941. And on March 23, 1943, the first grams of platinum and palladium were obtained from Norilsk sulfide copper-nickel ores. This historical day Krasnoyarsk refinery, currently OJSC Krasnoyarsk plant of non-ferrous metals named after V.N. Gulidov, and considers its official birthday.
OJSC Krastsvetmet for the entire period of its existence has passed a great historical path and today is the world's largest producer of refined metals of platinum group, gold and silver, processing all known types of raw materials.
Today, the plant refines about 99% of platinum and palladium mined in Russia, almost 100% of platinum satellite metals, about 50% of gold, up to 60% of silver.