Canada Nickel is advancing the next generation of high quality, high potential nickel projects to deliver the metals needed to power the electric vehicle revolution and feed the high growth stainless steel market.
Canada Nickel is currently anchored by its 100% owned flagship Crawford Nickel-Sulphide Project in the heart of the emerging Timmins Nickel District and is adjacent to major infrastructure.
Project
Along with our flagship Crawford Nickel Project, Canada Nickel has acquired multiple properties in the region.
Unlocking the potential for a Timmins Zero Carbon Nickel District with the consolidation of twenty plus nickel targets.
Eleven of those target properties have a larger footprint than Crawford and are confirmed to contain the same host mineralization as Crawford.
All targets are located in close proximity to existing infrastructure to help minimize carbon footprint.
Highlights
Large bulk tonnage opportunity. Second largest nickel deposit globally
Multiple discoveries in Timmins Nickel District. Sole North American source of Chromium
Easy access to infrastructure (Highway 655, rail, grid power, water, and mining communities in
Timmins and Cochrane)
Carbon Storage – IPT Carbonation process enabling 1.5 million tonnes of carbon storage annually
Originate and supply materials to responsibly power the energy transition.
NETZERO METALS
Canada Nickel has launched wholly-owned NetZero Metals Inc. to develop zero-carbon production of Nickel, Cobalt and Iron and holds trademarks for NetZero NickelTM, NetZero CobaltTM and NetZero IronTM across several jurisdictions
IPT CARBONATION PROCESS
Canada Nickel’s Crawford Project is hosted in ultramafic rock, which naturally absorbs and sequesters CO2. Canada Nickel has developed the novel IPT Carbonation process which involves injecting a concentrated source of CO2 into tailings generated by the milling process for a brief period of time. This simple process captures CO2 geologically in the tailings while they are still in the processing circuit, rather than after they have been finally deposited.
STEP ONE
Minerals, including brucite, olivine, and serpentine, are extracted from the open pit and transported to the processing facility
STEP FOUR
Tailings are deposited directly into the TMF, where they react with atmospheric CO2 brucite reacts with atmospheric CO2 to form a magnesium carbonate
Designed to become one of Canada’s largest carbon storage facilities with 1.5 Mtpa carbon captured and stored during peak period. More than 34 tonnes of carbon captured and stored per tonne of nickel over project life. After reducing Crawford’s minimal carbon footprint to net zero, there will be in excess of 30 tonnes storage capacity per tonne of nickel produced that can be sold.
NETZERO CONCENTRATE PROCESSING
- Existing pyrometallurgical processes such as roasting, sulphation roasting, and reduction using electric arc furnaces (utilizing natural gas rather than coke or coal as a reductant) with the off gases captured and re-routed to allow the CO2 to be captured by the waste rock and tailings.
- Existing hydrometallurgical processes such as the Albion or other similar processes to produce products which generate minimal off-gases. The off-gases will again be captured and treated to ensure CO2 and SO2 emissions are minimized.
- Production of iron products utilizing existing direct reduced iron (DRI) processes or reduction in electric arc furnaces utilizing natural gas.
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OUR TEAM
Our experienced team is led by globally recognized nickel industry expert, Mark Selby