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RANKED: World’s top 10 nickel projects DeepGreen Metals chairman and CEO Gerard Barron (right) in discussion at sea. Credit: DeepGreen Metals. While nickel is mostly used for stainless steel, the base metal has begun to take centre stage in the production of batteries in electric vehicles, as it is expected that original equipment manufacturers will increasingly use high-nickel cathode battery chemistries. The global nickel market is currently running at a surplus, but a supply deficit is expected to form in 2027 – and remain as demand accelerates. The shift in market dynamics is already...

Fond du Lac Band wins halt to copper mine Tribe asserts rights as a sovereign state under the Clean Water Act to challenge proposed PolyMet mining operations Author: Apr 5, 2021 A former iron ore processing plant near Hoyt Lakes, Minnesota, shown here on Feb. 10, 2016, would become part of a proposed PolyMet copper-nickel mine. The Fond du Lac Band is fighting the mine in court, saying it would pollute the waterways. (AP Photo/Jim Mone) Tribe asserts rights as a sovereign state under the Clean Water Act to challenge proposed PolyMet mining operations Mary Annette Pember The Fond du Lac Band o...

MINING.com Editor | March 17, 2021 | 3:05 pm While the world’s top nickel suppliers are Indonesia, the Philippines and Russia, six out of this year’s top ten ranked nickel projects are in North America, and the first is a seafloor deposit in the Clarion Clipperton Zone in the Pacific Ocean, between Hawaii and Mexico. To identify major nickel deposits that could form part of the global supply landscape in the future, MINING.COM and sister company MiningIntelligencecompiled the 10 largest projects under development worldwide and ranked them based on contained nickel resources in the measu...

When Steve Piragis and his wife moved to Ely, Minnesota — a town of just over 3,000 people on the edge of the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness — they were struck by its charm and pristine beauty. The one-million-acre area straddles the border between the United States and Canada and boasts thousands of lakes, dramatic rock formations, tiny islands and lush forests. Piragis relocated there in 1975 to work as a biologist with the US Environmental Protection Agency. In 1979, he and his wife started an outfitter company to lead tourists hungry for solitude and natural beauty on camping a...

PolyMet Mining Corp.: Minnesota Supreme Court Rules in Favor of PolyMet Air Permit St. Paul, Minnesota--(Newsfile Corp. - February 24, 2021) - The Minnesota Supreme Court today unanimously ruled in favor of the Clean Air Act permit issued to PolyMet by the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency, overturning an order by the state Court of Appeals that had remanded the permit back to the agency, according to Poly Met Mining, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of PolyMet Mining Corp. (TSX: POM) (NYSE American: PLM) (together "PolyMet" or the "company"). Rejecting the central legal argument relied on by...