The project’s preliminary economic assessment (PEA), based on prior resource estimates, outlined a 25-year operation that would produce 842,000 tonnes of nickel, plus iron and chrome byproducts of 21 million and 1.5 million tonnes respectively.
Additional opportunities have been identified to turn this into a net-zero carbon footprint operation, following the carbon footprint carbon sequestration potential of the tailings and waste rock at Crawford.
Geologically, the project is hosted in ultramafic rock, which naturally absorbs and sequesters carbon dioxide (CO2). The potential to actively capture and sequester carbon was a key consideration in Canada Nickel’s acquisition of the 42 km2 of target ultramafic rocks in the Timmins area of Ontario, which it believes could anchor a zero-carbon industrial cluster.
To speed up the naturally occurring carbon absorption process, Canada Nickel has developed a simple active process…
