STANISLAV SELEZNEV,
Nornickel Vice President for Environment and Safety:
“The Sulfur Program provides for the construction of a gypsum storage facility. It is a large bed where gypsum is poured in and deposited, and hardens. Afterwards, soil is poured in and plants are potted. You get an ecologically clean place.
This prompts the question of whether gypsum can be used in this way. There is a promising concept to use gypsum to fill mines and exhausted spaces. This idea is now being actively elaborated, we are carrying out experiments.”