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cema ([personal profile] cema) wrote2002-11-22 06:18 pm
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Russians buy key U.S. metals supplier

COLUMBUS, Mont., Nov. 22 (UPI) -- The nation's sole supplier of the strategic minerals, platinum and palladium has been sold to a Russian firm for $100 million in cash and $241 million in the mineral palladium.

Stillwater Mining Co., said that it is selling a controlling interest in the company to the Russian metals giant MMC Norilsk Nickel.

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