OREANDA-NEWS. Mining and Metallurgical Company ("MMC") Norilsk Nickel ("the Company", "Norilsk Nickel Group") announces preliminary consolidated production figures for the first quarter of 2007.

Tav Morgan, Deputy General Director of MMC "Norilsk Nickel" announced that the Company fulfilled its first quarter production plan.

The Norilsk Nickel Group produced 61 thousand metric tons of nickel, 101 thousand metric tons of copper, 716 thousand ounces (22.3 metric tons) of palladium and 169 thousand ounces (5.3 metric tons) of platinum from January through March 2007.