Terrafame
One of Europe's few mine-to-battery-chemical operations.
- Material
- Nickel
- Stage
- Mine
- Place
- Sotkamo, Kainuu, Finland
- Operator
- Terrafame (Finnish Minerals Group 56.2%)
- Coordinates
- 63.98° N, 28.02° E (approximate)
Seen from orbit
- Heat
- 0 of the last 7 days and 0 of the last 30 had furnace-hot pixels within 6 km (NASA FIRMS).
- Surface temperature
- Landsat, 7 Oct 2026: typical ground 7.1 °C; 12.5 ha more than 8 °C warmer than the land around it; hottest spot 12.2 °C above it.
- Radar
- Latest Sentinel-1 radar picture: 28 Oct 2026.
Signals show activity, not output. They are measured automatically and can be affected by weather, terrain and fires.
Facts
- Mines its own ore and extracts the metals by bioleaching
- At full capacity makes nickel sulphate for about 1 million EVs and cobalt sulphate for about 300,000
- Every production step happens on one site