Canada Nickel Ramps Up Ontario's Crawford Project: 'We Are Confidently Moving Into This Next Phase'
Canada Nickel Ramps Up Ontario's Crawford Project: 'We Are Confidently Moving Into This Next Phase'
Canada Nickel Company (OTCQX:CNIKF) is accelerating the development of its flagship Crawford nickel project in Ontario. The company recently announced the commencement of Front-End Engineering Design (FEED) by Ausenco Engineering Canada in the district, where it also plans a $1 billion processing plant as a downstream element.
加拿大鎳業公司（OTCQX: CNIKF）正在加快其位於安大略省的旗艦克勞福德鎳礦項目的開發。該公司最近宣佈，加拿大奧森科工程公司在該地區開始前端工程設計（FEED），還計劃在該地區建造一座耗資10億美元的加工廠作爲下游元素。
"As we continue to successfully advance Crawford financing and permitting activities, we are confidently moving into this next phase of project development," said Mark Selby, CEO of Canada Nickel. "This maintains our targets of a mid-2025 construction decision and first production by year-end 2027."
加拿大鎳業首席執行官馬克·塞爾比表示：“隨着我們繼續成功推進克勞福德的融資和許可活動，我們滿懷信心地進入項目開發的下一階段。”“這維持了我們2025年中期施工決策和到2027年底首次生產的目標。”
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The project boasts a massive resource, estimated at 2.46 billion tons grading 0.24% nickel, translating to a contained nickel resource of 13.3 billion pounds. A bankable feasibility study completed earlier pegged the project's after-tax net present value (at an 8% discount rate) at $2.6 billion with an internal rate of return of 18.3%.
該項目擁有龐大的資源，估計爲24.6億噸，鎳品位爲0.24％，這意味着所含的鎳資源爲133億磅。早些時候完成的一項銀行可行性研究將該項目的稅後淨現值（折現率爲8％）定爲26億美元，內部回報率爲18.3％。
Over its projected 41-year lifespan, the mine is expected also to produce 52.9 million pounds of cobalt, 490,000 ounces of palladium and platinum combined, 58 million tons of iron, and 6.2 million pounds of chromium.
在預計的41年壽命中，該礦預計還將生產5,290萬磅的鈷、49萬盎司的鈀金和鉑金、5,800萬噸鐵和620萬磅的鉻。
Utilizing conventional open-pit mining techniques, the project anticipates extracting 1,715 million tons of ore and 3,992 million tons of waste over a 33.5-year period. The mining operation will deploy a mixed fleet of equipment, including backhoe excavators, face shovels, and articulated trucks. Peak production is forecasted for year 11, with plans to integrate autonomous trucks and remotely operated shovels fully.
該項目利用傳統的露天採礦技術，預計在33.5年內開採17.15億噸礦石和39.92億噸廢物。採礦業務將部署混合設備車隊，包括反剷挖掘機、剷車和鉸接式卡車。預計11年的產量將達到峯值，並計劃完全整合自動駕駛卡車和遙控剷車。
Crawford has attracted significant interest from major players in the mining and battery sectors. Agnico Eagle Mines (NYSE:AEM), Canada's largest gold producer, holds a 12% stake in Canada Nickel. Additionally, South Korea's Samsung SDI secured an investment deal in January, granting the battery maker the potential to earn an 8.7% stake in Canada Nickel along with rights to 10% of the project's nickel-cobalt production over its lifespan.
克勞福德引起了採礦和電池領域主要參與者的濃厚興趣。加拿大最大的黃金生產商Agnico Eagle Mines（紐約證券交易所代碼：AEM）持有加拿大鎳業12％的股份。此外，韓國三星SDI在1月份達成了一項投資協議，這使這家電池製造商有可能獲得加拿大鎳業公司8.7％的股份，以及該項目在其生命週期內10％的鎳鈷產量的權利。
Nickel's essential role in electric vehicle batteries and renewable energy technologies continues to drive interest in projects like Crawford. Despite a significant underperformance in 2023, amid a slump in prices that caused layoffs and mine closures, projects like Crawford are far too significant for the long-term green energy transition.
鎳在電動汽車電池和可再生能源技術中的重要作用繼續激發人們對克勞福德等項目的興趣。儘管在價格暴跌導致裁員和礦山關閉的情況下，2023年表現嚴重不佳，但像克勞福德這樣的項目對於長期的綠色能源轉型來說實在是太重要了。
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