Did this project take even too long for RCF????

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https://www.afr.com/companies/mining/cashed-up-forrest-swoops-on-canadian-nickel-project-20201207-p56lcz

Cashed-up Forrest swoops on Canadian nickel project

Brad ThompsonReporter

Andrew Forrest is putting his financial might behind the company that controls Canada’s highest-grade nickel discovery since Vale-owned Voisey's Bay, as he grows his mining footprint beyond iron ore.

Wyloo Metals, owned by Forrest’s private investment arm Tattarang, is set to emerge with a near 38 per cent stake in Noront Resources under the terms of a $US26.5 million ($35.7 million) deal.

Andrew Forrest-owned Wyloo Metals has swooped on a Canadian nickel project. 

Mr Forrest has been building a portfolio of nickel investments in Australia, where his private business arm is a major backer of ASX-listed Poseidon Nickel, and has a 15 per cent stake in Mincor Resources and a smaller stake in Panoramic Resources.

In the latest deal, Wyloo will pay $US11.5 million for 22.65 per cent of Noront shares and purchase a $US15 million convertible loan from Resource Capital Fund.

Noront’s assets include the high-grade Eagle’s Nest nickel project in the Ring of Fire, an emerging multi-metals region in the James Bay Lowlands of Northern Ontario.

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The Toronto Stock Exchange-listed company has said it expects Eagle’s Nest to produce 150,000 to 250,000 tonnes of nickel-bearing concentrate a year over an 11-year mine life, with potential to extend that by nine years.

The Eagle's Nest mine life estimates do not include the development of the adjacent chromite resources.

Noront has a number of other projects in the Ring of Fire region, where the Province of Ontario has signalled it is willing to contribute up to a billion Canadian dollars ($1.05 billion) to infrastructure development.