The announcement comes a week after Australian billionaire Andrew Forrest’s Wyloo Metals completed the acquisition of the Eagle’s Nest nickel-copper-PGE deposit in the Ring of Fire.
“It’s a start of a journey for us into an economic reconciliation for Martin Falls First Nation and our neighbouring communities,” Marten Falls Chief Bruce Achneepineskum said at the announcement event.
“There’s a lot of work still to do. We are going to be moving on to the actual work of the environmental assessment, moving forward with the actual studies that are going to be happening,” added Achneepineskum. “We want to move forward in a good way… alleviating the conditions of the community, the poverty levels that we have faced in the decade’s past… there’s a lot of work to do.”
Located about 500 km away from Thunder Bay, the Ring of Fire has “multi-generational potential” for the production of critical…
