HIGH-GRADE NI-CU-PT-PD-ZN-CR-AU-V-TI DISCOVERIES IN THE "RING OF FIRE"

NI 43-101 Update (September 2012): 11.1 Mt @ 1.68% Ni, 0.87% Cu, 0.89 gpt Pt and 3.09 gpt Pd and 0.18 gpt Au (Proven & Probable Reserves) / 8.9 Mt @ 1.10% Ni, 1.14% Cu, 1.16 gpt Pt and 3.49 gpt Pd and 0.30 gpt Au (Inferred Resource)

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Message: 2017 not so good for nickel: BMI

Edgy...???

You find my post irrelvant to Noront and the Eagles nest?

How???????????????????

(1) NORONT nickel is a sulphide discovery.

(2) Nickel pig iron utilizes Nickel laterite

(3) The below is very self explanatory and doesn't take much imagination to come to the conclusion of lower demand for LATERITE NICKEL due to the United Nations recent signing by China and Indonesia as well as all the other countries...that I pointed out in my previous post.

(4) If you have lower demand for LATERITE NICKEL(BECAUSE THE CARBON EMISSIONS ARE PARTICULARLY HIGH) would this not increase demand for Sulphide nickel??

"pig iron equals "dirty nickel", because the production process is not environmentally friendly, the carbon dioxide emissions being particularly high."

https://www.nickelinstitute.org/NickelUseInSociety/AboutNickel/NickelMetaltheFacts.aspx

About 65% of the nickel which is produced is used to manufacture stainless steels. Another 20% is used in other steel and non-ferrous alloys - often for highly specialized industrial, aerospace and military applications. About 9% is used in plating and 6% in other uses, including coins, electronics, and in batteries for portable equipment and hybrid cars. In many of these applications there is no substitute for nickel without reducing performance or increasing cost.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nickel_pig_iron

Nickel pig iron (NPI) is a low grade ferronickel invented in China as a cheaper alternative to pure nickel for the production of stainless steel. The production process of nickel pig iron utilizes laterite nickel ores instead of pure nickel sold on the world market. The alternative was developed as a response to high price of pure nickel. The estimated cost of a ton of nickel pig iron ranges between 16.500 and 18.000 USD in 2012, and this cheaper substitute for pure nickel influences the price of nickel on the world market by lowering the demand in certain applications, the most important being the production of stainless steel, representing about two thirds of nickel use.

Nickel pig iron is made of low-grade nickel ore, coking coal, and a mixture of gravel and sand as an aggregate. This mixture is heated in either a blast furnace or an electric arc furnace depending on the desired grade. Impurities are then removed via smelting and sintering processes and the resulting nickel pig iron contains four to 13 percent pure nickel. According to Canadian Sudbury nickel pig iron equals "dirty nickel", because the production process is not environmentally friendly, the carbon dioxide emissions being particularly high.

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