As the first of the prospective polymetallic miners on the Duluth Complex, PolyMet's publication of its draft EIS is a major step on the way for perhaps three or four mining operations.
Prices have grown on average by 5 or 6% for the last decade and it is unlikely this will continue says Martin Pyle
Western Australian nickel producer Western Areas NL has been able to jump technical and bureaucratic hurdles to begin a new high grade open cut mine in the Forrestania belt where it mining just two years after the discovery hole.
Heron Resources reports that a feasibility study is investigating the potential to process 1 Mt/y of nickel laterite ore from the Yerilla project, producing 80,000 t/y of nickel concentrate, containing some 8,000 t/y of payable nickel and cobalt metal, via a reduction roast process. On May 29 Heron entered Framework Agreement with Ningbo Shanshan which provides for [...]
ONTARIO — Toronto-based Xstrata Nickel has decided to suspend mining indefinitely at its Montcalm nickel mine near Timmins because of poor ground […]
Purchasing.com (May 15, 2009) - Vale Inco has extended a planned three-week scheduled maintenance shutdown at its Sudbury, Ont., mining and Port Colborne, Ont., refinery operations by an additional eight weeks through the end of July. Xstrata Nickel recently decided to shutter all former Falconbridge mining operations in Sudbury, except for a development mine that won't reach full production until 2010. Another producer, FNX, has suspended its nickel production after the sharp drop in the metal's price made operations uneconomical.
Vale Inco is shutting down its nickel mining and processing operations in Sudbury, Ont., for eight weeks starting June 1 due to weak demand for the metal used to make stainless steel, the company said Thursday.
DRA was appointed as the EPCM contractor for the 12Mtpa DMS project at Tati Nickel’s existing Phoenix mine which is 40 km […]
DRA was appointed as the EPCM contractor for the 12Mtpa DMS project at Tati Nickel’s existing Phoenix mine which is 40 km […]
Intex Resources ASA has extended its contract with Aker Solutions as preferred partner for the Definitive Feasibility Study (DFS) for Stage 1 […]
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