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Pechenga (pyĕ`chĭn-gə), Finnish Petsamo, town, NW European Russia, an ice-free port at the head of Pechenga Fjord on the Barents Sea and near the Norwegian border. It is also the northern terminus of an Arctic highway. Pechenga serves as the base for a fishing (notably herring) fleet. Located in an important nickel- and copper-mining region, the town has an ore refinery. Pechenga was known in the 16th cent. as a Muscovite foreign trading port. Ceded by Russia to Finland in 1920, it was a supply base in the German-Finnish drive on Murmansk Murmansk (m  rmänsk`), city (1989 pop...... Click the link for more information. during World War II. The town was seized by Soviet forces and transferred to the USSR in the Russo-Finnish armistice of 1944. |
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In addition, eight local firefighters are helping to battle a 5,700-acre blaze five miles east of Temecula on the Pechenga Indian Reservation. 5% Nickel) in Australia and Pechenga (1000 Mt of 1% Nickel) in Russia. First, they could indicate the presence of a large disseminated Ni-Cu (PGE) deposit, possibly like that at the Mt Keith deposit mine in Western Australia and at Pechenga in Russia. |
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