"Noront Resources Inc., which recently purchased Cliffs Natural Resources' assets in the Ring of Fire. Cliffs had planned to build a ferrochrome processing plant near Capreol to mine chromite from the Ring."
Further on...
"If and when a ferrochrome smelter is created in Capreol,"

This Carol Mulligan seems to make an assumption that Noront buying Cliffs's assets is likely to take on it's plans. That is a wrong presumption to make at this point in time.
I think Noront will not make that decision before the nickel mine is at least partly built.
Jmho.