Noront Resources

High-grade Ni-Cu-Pt-Pd-Au-Ag-Rh-Cr-V discoveries in the "Ring of Fire" NI 43-101 Update (March 2011): 11.0 Mt @ 1.78% Ni, 0.98% Cu, 0.99 gpt Pt and 3.41 gpt Pd and 0.20 gpt Au (M&I) / 9.0 Mt @ 1.10% Ni, 1.14% Cu, 1.16 gpt Pt and 3.49 gpt Pd and 0.30 gpt Au (Inf.)

about 15 years ago

in response to Edgy's message

I don't know the true PGE concentrations at Sudbury, but they're lower than we have here at Eagle 1. The smelting processes at Inco is designed for nickel, certainly, but they are also optimized for collecting PGEs. They process a huge volume of nickel, and they get whatever PGEs "fall out" of the ore. That mixed PGE product is collected and sent to Europe and refined. Only then do they know just exactly what turned up as they smelted the nickel.

But Inco also does toll smelting for Canada's only PGE miner. They have no problem running PGE ore, as opposed to nickel heavy ore. For this PGE ore, nickel is the minor credit. I think some cobalt and copper, too.

I hope I haven't mangled the details. I think Sudbury Novice would know this better than I, but I haven't seen him around yet today. But as I understand it, our ore likely could not be better processed by any toll smelter in the world than is already installed in Sudbury.

Lar