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Norwegian coal mining company From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Store Norske Spitsbergen Kulkompani (SNSK), or simply Store Norske, is a Norwegian coal mining company based on the Svalbard archipelago. It was formed in 1916, after a Norwegian purchase of the American Arctic Coal Company (ACC).
Company type | State owned |
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Industry | Mining |
Predecessor | Arctic Coal Company |
Founded | 1916 |
Headquarters | , |
Key people | Per Andersson (CEO) |
Products | Bituminous coal |
Revenue | NOK 1,200 million |
NOK 350 million (2009) | |
Owner | Norwegian Ministry of Trade and Industry |
Number of employees | 340 (2010) |
Website | www |
The company has 360 employees and operated two coal mines. The larger one was located in the Sveagruva settlement, about 60 km south of Longyearbyen. The Svea Nord longwall mine has an annual output of 2 million tonnes of bituminous coal. A third of it is sold for metallurgical purposes. The managing director of Store Norske Spitsbergen Kulkompani was Per Andersson. The Sveagruva mine closed in 2017.
The Store Norske Spitsbergen Kulkompani has a shipping port at Cape Amsterdam, 15 km from Sveagruva.[1]
In 2021, the Store Norske Spitsbergen Kulkompani was ranked no. 81 in the Arctic Environmental Responsibility Index (AERI) that covers 120 oil, gas, and mining companies involved in resource extraction north of the Arctic Circle.[2]
Store Norske Spitsbergen Kulkompani was founded in 1916.[3]
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