Metal and mining company, Public Joint Stock Company Mining and Metallurgical Company Norilsk Nickel, and its subsidiaries, operate across several continents including Europe, Asia, North and South America, and CIS countries. Its operations are broken down into various segments, including GMK Group, South Cluster, KGMK Group, NN Harjavalta, GRK Bystrinskoye, Other Mining, and Other Non-Metallurgical segments. The company explores for, extracts, and refines both ore and nonmetallic minerals, and produces base and precious metals from ore, including but not limited to nickel, palladium, copper, platinum, cobalt, rhodium, silver, gold, and other metals. Norilsk Nickel is extensively involved in auxiliary businesses, such as property, equipment rental, gas extraction and transportation, electricity production and distribution, construction, mining and metallurgy repairs, spare parts production, geological works and construction, distribution, research, fuel supply, river shipping, and even aviation. The company was founded in 1997 and has its headquarters in Moscow, Russia.