Store Norske Spitsbergen Kulkompani
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).
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| 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 headquarters in central Longyearbyen
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]
Former chief executive officers
References
- Kjersti Sjursen Lien (2011-03-23). Kullbrann slokket på Svalbard "Kullbrann slokket på Svalbard" Check
|url=value (help) (in Norwegian Bokmål). NRK. Retrieved 2015-05-28. - Får penger til å lete etter Kjøde-kaprernes graver [Receiving money to find the graves of the Kjøde hicackers]
- «Vedtar forelegg for korrupsjon» by Rune Endresen, Dagens Næringsliv, 2011-08-27, page 6
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