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Nickel mining and exploration companies (25)

Kingsgate Consolidated Limited - Australian gold mining and exploration company
http://www.kingsgate.com.au/
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Properties of Nickel

Nickel is a metallic chemical element with the symbol Ni and atomic number 28. Nickel melts at about 1455°C (about 2651°F), boils at about 2913°C (about 5275°F). It is used chiefly in making alloys.
Nickel is a silvery white metal that takes on a high polish. It belongs to the transition metals, and is hard and ductile. It occurs most usually in combination with sulfur and iron in pentlandite, with sulfur in millerite, with arsenic in the mineral nickeline, and with arsenic and sulfur in nickel glance. Nickel is very slow to react with air, but it is a very reactive element.
The bulk of the nickel mined comes from two types of ore deposits. The first are laterites where the principal ore minerals are nickeliferous limonite and garnierite. The second are magmatic sulfide deposits where the principal ore mineral is pentlandite.

The nickel mining industry

Nickel is used as a protective and ornamental coating for metals, particularly iron and steel, that are susceptible to corrosion. IT is used in automobile parts such as axles, crankshafts, gears, valves, and rods; in machine parts; in nickel-cadmium batteries and in armor plate.
Most of the world supply of nickel is mined in Canada, which produces about 30% of the world's nickel supply. Cuba, the former USSR, China, and Australia are next in importance as nickel producers. Other important sources can be found in New Caledonia, Indonesia and Turkey. World mine production in 1991 totaled about 923,000 metric tons.



Amur Minerals Corporation
http://www.amurminerals.com/
Amur Minerals Corporation is a minerals exploration company whose principal asset is the Kun-Manie Nickel sulphide exploration project in the far east of Russia.

FerrAus Limited
http://www.ferraus.com/overview1profile.html
FerrAus Limited (ASX: FRS) is a junior exploration company based in Australia with its focus on the discovery and production of ferrous raw materials, including iron ore, manganese, and nickel.

Fieldex Exploration
http://www.fieldexexploration.com/index.asp?page=66
Fieldex Exploration

First Nickel Inc.
http://www.firstnickel.com/index.html
First Nickel, Inc. is a junior mining, exploration, and development company engaged in the acquisition, exploration and development of mining properties in Canada, and is currently focused primarily on nickel in Ontario.

Metals Exploration Limited
http://www.metalsx.com.au/company_overview.html
Metals Exploration Limited.

Mirabela Nickel Limited
http://www.mirabelanickel.com.au/
Mirabela Nickel Limited

International Nickel Ventures
http://www.nickelventures.com/company.html
International Nickel Ventures Corporation (INV), through its subsidiaries, is engaged in the business of acquiring, exploring and developing nickel projects in Brazil.

Falconbridge
http://www.noranda.ca/growth/exploration.htm
Falconbridge Limited, a leading producer of copper and nickel, with investments in zinc and aluminum.

Norilsk Nickel
http://www.nornik.ru/
Open Joint Stock Company Mining and Metallurgical Company Norilsk Nickel (hereinafter - MMC Norilsk Nickel or the Company) and its subsidiaries (hereinafter - the Group) is the world's leading producer of nickel and palladium, and one of the largest global producers of platinum and copper. In addition to this, the Group also produces a variety of by-products, such as cobalt, rhodium, silver, gold, iridium, ruthenium, selenium, tellurium and sulfur.

The Group is involved in prospecting, exploration, extraction, refining and metallurgical processing of minerals, and production, marketing and sale of base and precious metals. The key production units of the Group in Russia arethe Polar Division and OJSC Kola Mining and Metallurgical Company (hereinafter - Kola MMC). MMC Norilsk Nickel International Nickel Business includes operations in Finland, Australia, Botswana and South Africa.


PF&U
http://www.pfu-md.com/pages/mineral_01.asp
PF&U is an international mineral exploration and development company offering a wide range of services to the mining community and related industries.

Strongbow Exploration Inc.
http://www.strongbowexploration.com/Exploration%20Overview.htm
Strongbow Exploration

Nickel Mining Exploration
http://nickel-mining-news.blogspot.com/
Nickel Mining Exploration blog spot and news articles.

Asian Mineral Resources - Ban Phuc Nickel Project Vietnam Mining Exploration
http://www.asianminres.com/
Through its 90% ownership of Ban Phuc Nickel Mines Limited (“BPNML”), Asian Mineral Resources Limited (ASN) is developing Vietnam’s only known nickel deposit which includes a 1,230,000 tonne measured and indicated massive sulfide resource and a large disseminated sulfide resource. The first stage development Ban Phuc Project has an ore reserve of 1,010,000 tonnes of 2.4% nickel, 1.0% copper and 0.1% cobalt.
The Ban Phuc deposit is located 180 km northwest of Hanoi at the geographical centre of the Ta Khoa concession with other prospective targets situated in the surrounding region. BPNML completed a Feasibility Study in November 2005, and is currently working through the four-step approval process to obtain a mining license by the end of the first quarter of 2007. Construction of the mine is planned to begin in mid-2007, with production expected to begin in the third quarter of 2008.

MineralsUK
http://www.bgs.ac.uk/
MineralsUK is the British Geological Survey's (BGS) Centre for Sustainable Mineral Development. Run by the BGS Economic Minerals Programme, the Centre is a global leader in the compilation, provision and analysis of mineral statistics and the major UK national provider of spatial and statistical minerals information. We also carry out research in areas directly relevant to our user community, such as metallogenesis, land-use impacts of mineral extraction and geomaterials.
This website is produced and maintained by the BGS Economic Minerals Programme and was launched in 1999 to provide information about mineral exploration, mining, production and trade. Since then the scope of the website has been broadened and, with support from the Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG), it now includes content on a wider range of issues, such as spatial information on resources, sustainable development, planning information and UK policy and legislation.
The content of this website is being continually updated as the industry, legislation and information availability changes. Our objective is to provide users with a portal into the wide-ranging outputs of the BGS MineralsUK Centre for Sustainable Minerals Development and a central focus for minerals information specifically related to the UK scene.

CSA Australia
http://www.csaaus.com/
CSA’s nickel commodity division provides a specialist consulting service in nickel sulphide and laterite resource development to mining and exploration companies world-wide. Its principal, Mick Elias, also a director of CSA, has over 20 years experience with WMC Resources Ltd in nickel mining, exploration, and resource evaluation at senior management level.

With the backing provided by CSA’s highly experienced professionals in other disciplines including data management, GIS, mining geology, resource estimation and mining engineering, CSA can provide a full service from project generation and deposit evaluation, through exploration management and development studies, to operations geology.


Discovery Group
http://www.discoverygroup.com/
A New Force in Worldwide Mineral Exploration.

The purpose of the Discovery Group is to bring together some of the best young minds in the mineral exploration industry, with similar philosophies and ambitions, to create something truly great.
Each Discovery Group company is led by technical and management teams with mineral exploration success in distinct regions of the world. From the diamond mines of Canada’s arctic; the jungles of Central America; and the goldfields of Western Australia, the people of Discovery Group have an impressive track record as explorers.
Highly diversified, the companies of the Discovery Group have active exploration and development programs running on four continents; exploring for mineral commodities like diamonds, gold and silver, nickel and copper, uranium and PGE’s.


CSIRO Exploration & Mining
http://www.em.csiro.au/
There are two principal types of nickel deposit which are of economic interest: magmatic sulphide deposits associated with mafic and ultramafic rocks, and lateritic deposits formed over olivine-rich protoliths as a result of tropical weathering.
Further subdivision of the magmatic sulphide deposits can be made on the basis of the host-magma: extrusive and ultramafic versus intrusive and mafic. The former deposits occur in ancient komatiitic lava flow-fields. The latter are associated with layered mafic-ultramafic intrusions.

Mineral Exploration
http://www.fugroairborne.com.au/
Fugro Airborne Surveys is the most versatile and technologically advanced airborne survey company in the world. Through a network of offices spanning the globe, Fugro Airborne Surveys provides comprehensive geophysical mapping technologies for a wide variety of applications.
Airborne electromagnetic surveying originally grew out of the field of mineral exploration, in particular the search for conductive metallic sulphides and oxides in resistive geology. These applications are still common for airborne geophysical surveys, but the application of EM has been extended to almost every kind of mineral deposit currently of economic interest.

Nickel Mining - CommodityMine
http://www.infomine.com/
InfoMine: Nickel Mining Information - comprehensive and current data on nickel prices, nickel exploration, nickel mines and nickel markets.

InfoMine does not mine minerals - it makes mining minerals more efficient. It is a mine of information about the global mining industry, with a rack of tools to help you extract precisely the information you require.
The InfoMine websites provides focused, in-depth information and functionality encompassing most aspects of mining and mineral exploration activities worldwide. The websites are organized as a series of InfoMine Editions which collectively provide access to the largest, most fully integrated source of worldwide mining and mineral exploration information. Each InfoMine Edition has its own specific audience and content provided in the local language. The InfoMine websites are very popular - see InfoMine Statistics for details.

We also offer client website content services utilizing our unique Channels Technology, which enables clients to enhance their own websites with continuously updated content supplied remotely by InfoMine Inc.


LionOre Mining International Ltd.
http://www.lionore.com/about/default.asp
LionOre is an international nickel concentrate producer with operations in Western Australia, South Africa and Botswana and a gold mine, Thunderbox, in Western Australia. The Company’s nickel production is supported by significant by-product credits in the form of copper, cobalt, platinum group metals and gold. LionOre is listed on the Toronto (LIM), London (LOR), Australia (LIM) and Botswana (LIONORE) stock exchanges
Objective- To be a competitive, global, integrated nickel business delivering sustainable growth to all stakeholders.Strategy: Making responsible and competitive use of all LionOre’s assets including Activox®; Proactively identifying and developing opportunities to enhance LionOre’s integrated nickel strategy; Developing and implementing the organisational capability needed to achieve and sustain LionOre’s business and growth objectives; Fostering LionOre’s participation with all stakeholders to achieve these goals.

Metanor Resources Inc
http://www.metanor.ca/
Metanor Resources Inc. "Metanor" is a young junior mining exploration Corporation, incorporated since January 2003. Its head office and its exploration office are located in Val-d'Or (Province of Quebec, Canada).

The activities of the Corporation essentially pertains to the exploration of mining properties with a view towards their commercial operations. Metanor is focusing its exploration efforts on the prospection of gold deposits. Actually, the Corporation owns three (3) mining properties located in Québec and hold an option to acquire a property located in Sudbury, Ontario. For the year 2005, exploration work and diamond drilling programs are planned on the Dubuisson (Val-d'Or, Quebec), Bachelor Lake Property (Desmaraisville, Quebec) and Wahnapitei (Sudbury, Ontario) properties, both located in mining camp historically reconized as being very prolific in the province of Quebec (Dubuisson Property, Val-d'Or and Bachelor Lake Property - Desmaraisville) and of Ontario (Wahnapitei Property, Sudbury).


Applications : Base and precious metals exploration, mining exploration
http://www.phoenix-geophysics.com/
All geophysical applications possible with Phoenix equipment.

Phoenix Geophysics is a geophysical manufacturing and contracting company founded in 1975. We are the world leader in magnetotelluric (MT) and induced polarization (IP) instrumentation. Phoenix systems are used in more than 80 countries for exploration and research.

Our clients are mining and oil companies, geophysical contractors, universities, research institutes, and government earth science agencies.

Using MT Technologies For Rapid, Cost-Effective and Accurate Detection of Mineralization.


Silver Mining Exploration Company Silver Grail Resources Ltd. TSX Venture Stock Exchange
http://www.silvergrail.com/
Silver mineral exploration company Silver Grail Resources Ltd. listed on the TSX Venture Stock Exchange.

Silver Grail's Andy property is situated east of Harrison Lake in the Talc Creek drainage, 100 kilometers east of Vancouver, British Columbia. The Andy claims control circa 1.5km of a 10km long, magnesium-rich, ellipsoid-shaped body of ultramafic rocks that strikes NW-SE for approximately 10 kilometers (with an average width of 2 km). The easternmost, lion's share of the body is controlled by Leader Mining International.
To find quality mineral properties by participating in grass roots prospecting programs within highly mineralized, under-explored regions like the Stewart -Eskay Creek mining camp of northwestern British Columbia (also known as the “Golden Crescent”).
Once a quality prospect has been developed, the Company will attempt to farm out the property. This reduces risk, preserves capital and minimizes dilution of shareholders’ equity.
On the other hand, where a prospect has exceptional merit and market conditions are such that exploration funds can be raised with minimal dilution, the Company may “go it alone”.


Gold and Silver Mining Exploration Teuton Resources Corporation
http://www.teuton.com/
Gold and silver mineral exploration company Teuton Resources Corporation listed on the TSX Venture Stock Exchange.

To acquire mineral properties at low cost, mostly by staking, in high potential regions. To enhance the value of the properties by carrying out effective grass roots exploration. To seek out third parties willing to option our mineral properties on favourable terms.


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