Canada Nickel plans zero-carbon N. Ontario mine cluster “We're just basically taking in a similar type of rock, grinding it up really finely and injecting the CO2 as it's going through the mill,” he said. “So that's the nice part. It's not any more complicated than that.”
Canada Nickel also plans to create carbon credits around its process. For the Crawford project, he predicts between 750,000 to one million tonnes of carbon credits.
“The nice thing with these carbon credits,” Selby explained, “is we'll measure carbon of the material as it's at Point A in the pipe, we’ll run this carbonation process, and then we'll be able to measure the carbon as it's coming out in Point B.”
A release states the Crawford nickel project has potential to become the sole large-scale carbon storage facility in Ontario and one of largest such facilities in Canada.
Canada Nickel plans to mine 120,000 tonnes of ore per day – and process 43 million tonnes of nickel and cobalt per year from 100 million tonnes of material. It also predicts mining up to one million tonnes of iron and between 30,000 to 40,000 tonnes of chromium per year.
Selby estimated construction would generate several thousand jobs, along with several hundred employees working at the mines once they are operational.
“Our market cap right now is about just under $200 million. This is a billion-dollar-plus project,” Selby said.
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