2025 Annual Report
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Investment highlights

Unique resources

The Company’s unique mineral resource base (in terms of high metal content) secures the most advantaged position in the global mining industry.

Copper‑nickel sulphide ore

Polar Division
7 mines

Proven and probable reserves

1,481 mln t
Ni
10 mln t
Cu
17 mln t
6 PGMsThe six platinum group metals (6 PGMs) are platinum, palladium, rhodium, ruthenium, osmium, and iridium.
183 Moz

Measured and indicated resources

1,966 mln t
Ni
14 mln t
Cu
23 mln t
6 PGMs
255 Moz

Reserves life at the current production rate

Over 70 years

Gold‑iron‑copper ore

Trans‑Baikal Division
2 open pits

Proven and probable reserves

261 mln t
Cu
1.3 mln t
Au
5.4 Moz
Ag
22.8 Moz
Fe
49.1 mln t

Measured and indicated resources

282 mln t
Cu
1.7 mln t
Au
5.9 Moz
Ag
28.8 Moz
Fe
62.7 mln t

Reserves life at the current production rate

Over 20 years
Investment highlights
Low carbon footprints of nickel production

The carbon footprint according to international standards totalled

9.2 kg of СО2 equivalent
per kg of of Class I nickel production.

High degree of vertical integration

From ore to finished products (100% self‑sufficiency). The Company’s reliance on own logistics, energy, fuel, and water supply translates to a significantly smaller share of these expenditures in cash costs vs peers.

Best‑in‑class feedstock mix

Natural diversification and solid long‑term fundamentals.

Low carbon footprints of nickel production

The carbon footprint according to international standards totalled

9.2 kg of СО2 equivalent
per kg of of Class I nickel production.

High degree of vertical integration

From ore to finished products (100% self‑sufficiency). The Company’s reliance on own logistics, energy, fuel, and water supply translates to a significantly smaller share of these expenditures in cash costs vs peers.

Best‑in‑class feedstock mix

Natural diversification and solid long‑term fundamentals.

Position in the global metals market

Position in the metals and mining industry, %Data as of early March 2026. Based on refined metal (including tolling) output for palladium, nickel, and platinum; based on contained metal production for copper.
No. 1No. 3No. 4No. 14PalladiumHigh grade hickelA type of nickel that includes metal nickel produced in the form of cathodes, briquettes, rounds, crowns, powders, pellets, and nickel salts.PlatinumCopper41%10%11%2%
Investment highlights

Highly liquid stock

Nornickel shares have been traded on the Russian stock market since 2001. Since 2014, Nornickel shares have been included in the first‑level quotation list of the Moscow Exchange (ticker: GMKN). Norilsk Nickel shares outperformed the stock and commodity markets in 2025. Since the beginning of the year, the Company's shares have risen by 29%.

The Company’s analyst ratings as of the end of 2025, %
8515BuyHold

Proportion of Nornickel shares in the main indices of the Moscow ExchangeAs at 30 December 2025.