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Norwegian coal mining company
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).
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
.
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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.
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History
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Store Norske Spitsbergen Kulkompani was founded in 1916.
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Former chief executive officers
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References
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Kjersti Sjursen Lien (2011-03-23).
Kullbrann slokket pa Svalbard "Kullbrann slokket pa Svalbard"
(in Norwegian Bokmal).
NRK
. Retrieved
2015-05-28
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Overland, I., Bourmistrov, A., Dale, B., Irlbacher?Fox, S., Juraev, J., Podgaiskii, E., Stammler, F., Tsani, S., Vakulchuk, R. and Wilson, E.C. 2021. The Arctic Environmental Responsibility Index: A method to rank heterogenous
extractive industry
companies for governance purposes.
Business Strategy and the Environment
. 30, 1623?1643.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/bse.2698
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Rui, Ingolf Jarle (20 February 2018).
"Store Norske Spitsbergen Kulkompani AS"
.
Store norske leksikon
(in Norwegian). Foreningen Store norske leksikon
. Retrieved
6 May
2021
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Far penger til a lete etter Kjøde-kaprernes graver
[Receiving money to find the graves of the Kjøde hicackers]
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≪Vedtar forelegg for korrupsjon≫
by
Rune Endresen
,
Dagens Næringsliv
, 2011-08-27, page 6
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