— Nickel mining in New Caledonia is a major sector of the New Caledonian economy. The island contains about 7.1 million tonnes of nickel reserves, about 10% of the world's total. [1] [2] With an annual production of 200,000 tonnes in 2020, New Caledonia was the world's fourth largest producer after Indonesia (760,000), Philippines (320,000), …
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— The French territory of New Caledonia contains nickel reserves that would be invaluable to the production of electric vehicle batteries in the U.S. However, under the Inflation Reduction Act's critical mineral requirement, the use of New Caledonian nickel in electric vehicle batteries may inhibit the ability of vehicles containing those ...
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— New Caledonia's history coincides with that of nickel. In 1864, a new nickel ore, composed of garnierite, a green serpentine-group mineral, (Ni,Mg) 3 Si 2 O 5 (OH) 4, was discovered in New Caledonia by a young geologist named Jules Garnier (1839–1904). Mining developed very rapidly after 1873. Nickel, cobalt, iron, and also gold, copper ...
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— Comprised an open-cut nickel mine and a pyrometallurgical plant, Koniambo Nickel Project is located in the North Province of New Caledonia and was officially inaugurated in November 2014. It is one of the world's biggest and highest-grade undeveloped nickel laterite deposits.
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— The Koniambo Nickel SAS (KNS), a joint venture (JV) between Société Minière du Sud Pacifique SA and Glencore in New Caledonia, will transition into care and maintenance, it was announced …
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— New Caledonia's mining industry is struggling to compete against Indonesia, the world's largest nickel producer, due to decades of export restrictions and high energy costs that have made its nickel more …
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— Rival commodity trader Trafigura and French mining group Eramet, which hold stakes in nickel mines and processing facilities in New Caledonia, are facing similar challenges to Glencore as their ...
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— Operations have started at the $7bn Koniambo Nickel project (Koniambo) in New Caledonia, which is jointly owned by Glencore and Société Minière du Sud Pacifique (SMSP). November 18, 2014. Share Copy Link; Share on X ... Image: Koniambo Nickel mine is located in the North province of New Caledonia. Photo: courtesy of Bananaflo / …
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— New Caledonia is a small French territory in the southwest Pacific Ocean, and it is believed to own as much as 25% of the world's nickel. It is home to the Goro mine owned and operated by mining ...
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— The Nickel industry and spatial disparities in New Caledonia. The nickel sector is the engine of the New Caledonian economy, representing over 90% of the value of export products (ISEE, 2016). About 50% of the identified mineral resources are …
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— Mining and trading giant Glencore is to stop financing a lossmaking nickel mine in New Caledonia, as growing Indonesian production of a key metal in electric car batteries squeezes rivals.
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New Caledonia's huge nickel reserves are crucial for the local economy, and the Goro mine, in the south of the island, has the potential to be one of the world's biggest nickel producers.
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Our marketing business markets nickel and nickel concentrates, as well as by-products and ferronickel. Our nickel operations are in Canada, Australia, Norway, and New Caledonia. We produce other metals as a by-product of nickel production, including cobalt, copper, precious metals and platinum-group metals.
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— Nickel mining is a key industry in New Caledonia, which holds as much as a quarter of the world's known reserves. Vale's plant is the second-largest employer in the southern province, with ...
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— The Goro nickel mine in Kwe West Bassin, New Caledonia. Credit: Barsamuphe/Wikipedia. Brazilian mining firm Vale has completed the divestiture of its stake in Vale New Caledonia (VNC), which operates the Goro nickel mine and a processing plant in New Caledonia, to the Prony Resources New Caledonia consortium. ...
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— Beneath the emerald canopy of New Caledonia lies a quiet force that will power the world's green energy revolution. With a modest population of 300,000, the French territory is the fourth-largest nickel …
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— The article is based on extensive literature review concerning nickel mining, sustainable development and indigenous people. A report on sustainable development published by KNS represents a key element to understand how this mining operator perceives sustainability (Koniambo Nickel, 2015).To get a deeper understanding of how …
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2024] NICKEL MINING IN NEW CALEDONIA AND THE INFLATION REDUCTION ACT 483 France.12 All three referenda failed to ensure New Caledonia's independence from France.13 However, in 2021, the last referendum failed by a particularly narrow margin, resulting in a pro-independence protest.14 Many New Caledonians view Caledonia's …
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— Two sites directly related to nickel mining and smelting were more particularly targeted in this study. The first is the Poro mine, situated on the east coast, one of the oldest still active extraction sites (Fig. 1 c). The second is the metallurgical ore factory of Doniambo, located in Noumea (Fig. 1 d). It was established in 1910 on an isolated, 7 …
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— Glencore (LON: GLEN) said on Monday it will close and sell its stake in the loss-making Koniambo Nickel SAS (KNS) business it co-owns in New Caledonia, as a sharp drop in the metal's prices ...
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— The aim of this study is to explore the use of lichens as biomonitors of the impact of nickel mining and ore treatment on the atmosphere in the New Caledonian archipelago (South Pacific Ocean); both activities emitting also Co, Cr and possibly Fe. Metal contents were analysed in thirty-four epiphytic lichens, collected in the vicinity of …
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— New Caledonia sits on up to 30 percent of the world's nickel reserves, and nickel-related industries employ 20-25 percent of the working population in the archipelago of 270,000 people.
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— New Caledonia owns 25% of the world available reserve of Nickel extractible ores (Kowasch, 2018), and the nickel production rate has been increasing over the years, reaching a peak nowadays [200 ...
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— Twenty-one immature yellow marbled eels, Anguilla marmorata, were captured by electric fishing in May 2016 and July 2021 near the Koniambo Mount of New Caledonia in four different sites (with 4–6 individuals per site).Three sites were used for their high metal concentration levels due to the soil composition (ultramafic soils) and the …
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Nickel Mining Company (NMC) is the joint venture between POSCO and SMSP, based in New Caledonia, which is in charge of supplying the Gwangyang plant in nickel ore. It is 51% owned by SMSP and employed 694 members of staff on December 31, 2020. NMC today aims to provide the plant up 3.6 million tonnes of humid ore with nickel ore grade of …
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— The New Caledonia plants, which have long struggled due to high energy costs and social unrest, have had to contend with a wave of new supply from Indonesian smelters that's caused nickel prices ...
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— New Caledonia's nickel output had already been slashed after prices plunged amid faltering consumption by the battery sector and a boom in Indonesian supply.
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— A worker stands near stationary nickel mining equipment near the community of Kone on New Caledonia, an archipelago in the South Pacific on February 28, 2024. ... "The scale of New Caledonia's ...
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— New Caledonia is one of the major nickel mining regions in the world. Earlier in the session, LME nickel climbed 5.1% to $20,800 a ton, its highest since September 2023. SHFE nickel surged as high as 5.6% to 153,970 yuan, a high level unseen since October last year.
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— The Koniambo Nickel SAS (KNS), a joint venture (JV) between Société Minière du Sud Pacifique SA and Glencore in New Caledonia, will transition into care and maintenance, it was announced on Monday.
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— Political leaders in French overseas territory New Caledonia have agreed new terms for the sale of the Brazilian-owned Goro nickel mine. The deal gives a majority stake-holding to state entities based on …
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Tiebaghi Mine in South Province, was the largest mine in New Caledonia, producing approximately 1.43 million metric tons per annum (mmtpa) of Run-of-Mine (ROM) and primarily produced nickel (13.63 thousand tonnes) in 2021. The Tiebaghi Mine is owned by SOCIETE TERRITORIALE CALEDONIENNE DE PARTICIPATION …
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— Last year Tesla agreed to buy cobalt, another metal used in batteries, from the Swiss miner Glencore. New Caledonia is the world's fourth-largest nickel producer. Its nickel industry also includes the SLN subsidiary of French mining group Eramet and a joint venture between commodity group Glencore and New Caledonia's northern province.
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