Kwanan nan Polymetal ta sanar da cewa Tomtor niobium da kuma ma'ajiyar ƙarfe mai launin ruwan kasa a Gabas Mai Nisa na iya zama ɗaya daga cikin manyan ma'ajiyar ƙasa guda uku mafi girma a duniya. Kamfanin yana da ƙaramin hannun jari a cikin aikin.
Tomtor shine babban aikin da Rasha ke shirin faɗaɗa samar da ƙarfe na ƙasa mai wuya. Ana amfani da ƙasa mai wuya a masana'antar tsaro da kuma samar da wayoyin hannu da motocin lantarki.
"Girman Thomtor da matsayinsa sun tabbatar da cewa ma'adinan yana ɗaya daga cikin manyan ma'adinan niobium da ƙasa mai wuya a duniya," in ji shugaban kamfanin Polymetals Vitaly Nesis a cikin sanarwar.
Kamfanin Polymetal babban kamfani ne mai samar da zinare da azurfa, yana da hannun jari na kashi 9.1% a kamfanin ThreeArc Mining Ltd, wanda ya haɓaka aikin. Ɗan'uwan Vitali, ɗan kasuwan Rasha Alexander Nesis, yana da rinjayen hannun jari a cikin aikin da kuma kamfanin polymetal.
Kamfanin Three Arcs yanzu ya fara shirya nazarin yiwuwar samar da kuɗaɗen aikin, duk da cewa yana da wuya a sami wasu izini daga gwamnatin Rasha, kuma ƙirar har yanzu tana fuskantar ƙalubale saboda jinkirin annobar, in ji Polymetal.
Kamfanin hakar ma'adinai na azurfa ya ce, sakamakon annobar, an dage aikin Tomtor na tsawon watanni 6 zuwa 9. A baya an yi tsammanin za a fara aikin a shekarar 2025, inda za a samar da tan 160,000 na ma'adinai a kowace shekara.
Kiyasin farko ya nuna cewa ajiyar Tomtor da ta cika buƙatun Kwamitin Ma'adinan Haɗin gwiwa na Ostiraliya (JORC) sun kai tan 700,000 na niobium oxide da tan miliyan 1.7 na rare earth oxides.
Dutsen Weld (MT Weld) na Ostiraliya da Kvanefjeld na Greenland (Kvanefjeld) su ne sauran manyan ma'adanai guda biyu mafi girma a duniya.