Store Norske Spitsbergen Kulkompani
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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 operates two coal mines. The largest one is 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 is Bjørn Arnestad.
Norway
Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...
coal
Coal
Coal is a combustible black or brownish-black sedimentary rock usually occurring in rock strata in layers or veins called coal beds or coal seams. The harder forms, such as anthracite coal, can be regarded as metamorphic rock because of later exposure to elevated temperature and pressure...
mining company based on the Svalbard
Svalbard
Svalbard is an archipelago in the Arctic, constituting the northernmost part of Norway. It is located north of mainland Europe, midway between mainland Norway and the North Pole. The group of islands range from 74° to 81° north latitude , and from 10° to 35° east longitude. Spitsbergen is the...
archipelago. It was formed in 1916, after a Norwegian purchase of the American
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
Arctic Coal Company (ACC).
The company has 360 employees and operates two coal mines. The largest one is located in the Sveagruva settlement, about 60 km south of Longyearbyen
Longyearbyen
Longyearbyen is the largest settlement and the administrative centre of Svalbard, Norway. It is located on the western coast of Spitsbergen, the largest island of the Svalbard archipelago, on the southern side on Adventfjorden , which continues inland with Adventdalen...
. The Svea Nord longwall mine has an annual output of 2 million tonnes of bituminous coal
Bituminous coal
Bituminous coal or black coal is a relatively soft coal containing a tarlike substance called bitumen. It is of higher quality than lignite coal but of poorer quality than Anthracite...
. A third of it is sold for metallurgical purposes. The managing director of Store Norske Spitsbergen Kulkompani is Bjørn Arnestad.