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Big Blackstone nickel venture in Vietnam emerges

BLACKSTONE Minerals has costed its Ta Khoa nickel mining development at US$363 million, taking the total initial cost of the integrated project in Vietnam featuring a refinery producing nickel, cobalt and manganese battery precursor products to $854 million.

Blackstone's Ta Khoa project in Vietnam

Blackstone's Ta Khoa project in Vietnam

The mine featuring a fully electrified mining fleet will feed an 8 million tonne per annum concentrator and produce about 16,400t of nickel recovered in concentrate per annum. The mining inventory is...

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