RE:7.0 million ounces of platinum group metals ("PGM's")My guess is that if your project has a cornucopia of metal assets, it would get tricky attempting to process all of them and then marketing it as a smorgasbord could dilute excitement in the project since it isn't foused on its core components.
Individually, nickel and the pgms are much more lucrative than iron. If you change focus, you have to revamp the PEA and processing assumptions and it starts to get messy. I don't think anything nefarious is going on here, just that any iron that may be had at Nickel Shaw has historically been looked at as waste product or not lucrative enough to incorporate it into the PEA.
You're the first one I"ve heard tout the iron. If I were you, I'd contact the CEO and inquire what he knows about it and get the opinion directly from the horses' mouth.