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| TABLE 13 | |||||||||||
| NICKEL: NEW LATERITE PROJECTS SCHEDULED FOR COMPLETION BEFORE 2020, BY YEAR | |||||||||||
| Estimated | |||||||||||
| resources | Annual production | ||||||||||
| Projected | Resource | (thousand | capacity | ||||||||
| year of first | Country and | grade | metric | (metric tons of | |||||||
| production | state/province | Project and company1 | (% nickel) | tons)2, 3 | contained nickel) | Nickel product | |||||
| 2007 | Philippines | Berong | 2.30 | 4,200 | 17,000 | Ore. | |||||
| (Palawan) | Toledo Mining Corp. PLC, Atlas Consolidated | 1.30 | 270,000 | ||||||||
| Mining and Development Corp., | |||||||||||
| Investika Ltd. | |||||||||||
| 2008 | Australia | Ravensthorpe | 0.74 | 130,000 | 50,000 | Ni-Co hydroxide. | |||||
| (Western Australia) | BHP Billiton Group | 0.58 | 150,000 | ||||||||
| 2009 | Brazil | Onca-Puma | 1.72 | 110,000 | 52,000 | Ferronickel. | |||||
| (Para) | Minera��o On�a Puma | 0.75 | 310,000 | ||||||||
| Vale Inco Limited | |||||||||||
| 2009 | New Caledonia | Goro | 1.34 | 96,000 | 60,000 | Ni oxide. | |||||
| (Southern) | Goro Nickel S.A. | 2.01 | 24,000 | ||||||||
| Vale Inco, Soci�t� de Participation Mini�re du� | 1.70 | 83,000 | |||||||||
| Sud Cal�donien S.A.S., Sumitomo consortium | |||||||||||
| 2009 | Turkey | Caldag | 1.14 | 33,000 | 21,000 | Leachate precipitate. | |||||
| (Manisa) | European Nickel PLC and BHP Billiton Group | ||||||||||
| 2010 | Cameroon | Nkamouna and Mada | 0.69 | 55,000 | 3,000 | Ni oxide. | |||||
| (East Province) | Geovic Cameroon PLC. and Geovic Mining | 0.66 | 6,600 | ||||||||
| Corp. | 0.47 | 26,000 | |||||||||
| 2011 | Brazil | Barro Alto | 1.64 | 13,000 | 36,000 | Ferronickel. | |||||
| (Goias) | Anglo American plc | 1.81 | 27,000 | ||||||||
| 2011 | Kazakhstan | Shevchenko | 0.85 | 21,000 | 15,700 | Ferronickel and/or | |||||
| (Kostanai Oblast) | Oriel Resources plc | 0.77 | 83,000 | leachate� | |||||||
| 0.84 | 32,000 | precipitate. | |||||||||
| 2011 | Madagascar | Ambatovy (Ambatovy and Analamay deposits) | 1.12 | 44,000 | 60,000 | Ni-Co intermediate. | |||||
| Sherritt International Corp., Sumitomo Corp.,� | 0.99 | 81,000 | |||||||||
| South Korean consortium | |||||||||||
| 2011 | New Caledonia | Koniambo | 2.40 | 63,000 | 60,000 | Ferronickel. | |||||
| (Northern) | Xstrata Nickel and Soci�t� Mini�re du Sud | 2.45 | 54,000 | ||||||||
| Pacifique S.A. | 2.20 | 160,000 | |||||||||
| 2011 | Papua New Guinea | Ramu� | 0.91 | 76,000 | 33,000 | Ni-Co intermediate. | |||||
| (Madang) | China Metallurgical Group Corp., | 1.01 | 67,000 | ||||||||
| Highlands Pacific Ltd., Mineral Resources | |||||||||||
| Development Co., Mineral Resources Madang Ltd. | |||||||||||
| 2011 | Philippines | Pujada�Mati | 1.30 | 200,000 | 50,000 | Do. | |||||
| (Davao Oriental) | Hallmark Mining Corp., Austral�Asia Link | ||||||||||
| Mining Corp. and BHP Billiton Group | |||||||||||
| 2012 | Brazil | Vermelho | 0.80 | 290,000 | 46,000 | Metal or oxide. | |||||
| (Para) | Vale Inco Limited | ||||||||||
| 2012 | China | Yuanjiang | 0.91 | 430,000 | NA | Ni-Co intermediate. | |||||
| (Yunnan) | Sino-Platinum Metals Co. | ||||||||||
| 2012 | Guatemala | Fenix saprolite (pyrometallurgical process) | 1.81 | 8,700 | 22,700 | Ferronickel. | |||||
| (Izabal) | Skye Resources Inc., Vale Inco Limited, | 1.58 | 33,000 | ||||||||
| BHP Billiton Group | 1.76 | 44,000 | |||||||||
| 2012 | Philippines | Adlay-Cagdianao-Tandawa | 1.61 | 5,800 | 5,000 | Ore. | |||||
| (Surigao del Norte | BHP Billiton Group and Case Mining and | 1.58 | 13,000 | ||||||||
| and Surigao del Sur) | Development Corp. | ||||||||||
| 2013 | Australia | Marlborough (Slopeaway, Coorumburra, | 0.99 | 12,000 | 65,000 | Metal. | |||||
| (Queensland) | Whereat) | 0.91 | 43,000 | ||||||||
| Gladstone Pacific Nickel Ltd. | 0.88 | 16,000 | |||||||||
| 2013 | Australia | Jump-up Dam, Boyce Creek, Aubils | 1.01 | 22,000 | 5,000 | Leachate precipitate. | |||||
| (Western Australia) | Heron Resources Ltd. | 0.79 | 53,000 | ||||||||
| 2013 | Guatemala | Sechol (El Inicio, El Segundo, Rio Negro, | 1.40 | 37,000 | 4 | NA | Ni-Co intermediate. | ||||
| Poza Azul deposits) BHP Billiton Group5 | 1.50 | 100,000 | |||||||||
| See footnotes at end of table. | |||||||||||
| TABLE 13�Continued | |||||||||||
| NICKEL: NEW LATERITE PROJECTS SCHEDULED FOR COMPLETION BEFORE 2020, BY YEAR | |||||||||||
| Estimated | |||||||||||
| resources | Annual production | ||||||||||
| Projected | Resource | (thousand | capacity | ||||||||
| year of first | Country and | grade | metric | (metric tons of | |||||||
| production | state/province | Project and company1 | (% nickel) | tons)2, 3 | contained nickel) | Nickel product | |||||
| 2013 | Indonesia | Weda Bay (Santa Monica, Pintu, Boki Mokot | 1.45 | 150,000 | 60,000 | Ni-Co intermediate.6 | |||||
| (Halmahera Island) | deposits) | 1.53 | 120,000 | ||||||||
| Weda Bay Minerals Inc. (Eramet Group) and | |||||||||||
| PT Aneka Tambang | |||||||||||
| 2014 | Australia | Syerston | 0.73 | 77,000 | 18,000 | Ni-Co sulfide | |||||
| (New South Wales) | Ivanhoe Nickel and Platinum Ltd. | concentrate. | |||||||||
| 2014 | Australia | Kalgoorlie and North Kalgoorlie�Ghost Rocks, | 1.20 | 100,000 | 50,000 | Ni-Co hydroxide. | |||||
| (Western Australia) | Goongarrie, Kalpini | 0.83 | 230,000 | ||||||||
| Heron Resources Ltd. and Vale Inco Limited | |||||||||||
| 2014 | Cuba | Las Camariocas | 1.32 | 110,000 | 22,500 | Metal, oxide, or | |||||
| (Holguin) | Government of Cuba and others7 | ferronickel. | |||||||||
| 2014 | Indonesia | Sorowako and Bahodopi mines | 1.87 | 48,000 | 22,000 | Leachate precipitate. | |||||
| (Sulawesi) | PT International Nickel | ||||||||||
| Indonesia TBK | |||||||||||
| 2014 | Philippines | Sablayan (Kisluyan, Buraboy, Shabo areas) | 0.94 | 73,000 | 60,000 | Ni-Co sulfide. | |||||
| (Mindoro Oriental) | Aglubang Mining Corp. | 0.95 | 47,000 | ||||||||
| Crew Minerals ASA | 0.88 | 88,000 | |||||||||
| 2014 | Philippines | Acoje and Zambales | 1.13 | 49,000 | 17,000 | Leachate precipitate. | |||||
| (Zambales) | DMCI Holdings, Inc., Rusina Mining NL, | 1.18 | 24,000 | ||||||||
| European Nickel PLC | |||||||||||
| 2015 | Australia | Young | 0.99 | 58,000 | 27,000 | Leachate precipitate | |||||
| (New South Wales) | Jervois Resources Ltd. | 0.72 | 110,000 | or ferronickel. | |||||||
| 0.38 | 110,000 | ||||||||||
| 2015 | Australia | Mount Margaret | 0.78 | 170,000 | 45,000 | Ni-Co hydroxide. | |||||
| (Western Australia) | Minara Resources Ltd. | ||||||||||
| 2015 | Cuba | Pinares de Mayari West | 1.10 | 400,000 | 40,000 | Metal, oxide, or | |||||
| (Holguin) | Government of Cuba | ferronickel. | |||||||||
| 2015 | Guatemala | Fenix limonite (hydrometallurgical process) | 1.18 | 52,000 | 22,200 | Ni-Co hydroxide. | |||||
| (Izabal) | Skye Resources Inc., Vale Inco Limited, BHP� | 1.16 | 13,000 | ||||||||
| Billliton Group | |||||||||||
| 2015 | New Caledonia | Prony | 1.50 | NA | 4 | NA | 4 | Ni oxide. | |||
| (Southern) | Vale Inco, Bureau de Recherches, G�ologiques | ||||||||||
| et Mini�res, Sumitomo consortium | |||||||||||
| 2016 | Brazil | Araguaia (Serra do Tapa, Vale dos Sonhos,� | 1.62 | 44,000 | 36,000 | Ferronickel. | |||||
| (Para) | Pau Preto) | 1.64 | 18,000 | ||||||||
| Xstrata Nickel | 1.60 | 7,000 | |||||||||
| 2016 | Cuba | San Felipe | 1.30 | 250,000 | 45,000 | Metal or oxide. | |||||
| (Camaguey) | Government of Cuba and others | ||||||||||
| 2016 | Papua New Guinea | WoWo Gap | 1.09 | 31,000 | 45,000 | Metal. | |||||
| (Oro) | Resource Mining Corp. Ltd. | 1.44 | 18,000 | ||||||||
| 2017 | New Caledonia | Nakety-Bogota | 1.47 | 88,000 | 52,000 | Ni-Co intermediate. | |||||
| (Northern) | Argosy Minerals, Inc. and Soci�t� des Mines de | 1.50 | 140,000 | ||||||||
| la Tontouta | |||||||||||
| 2018 | Philippines | Celestial | 1.29 | 77,000 | 40,000 | Do. | |||||
| (Palawan) | Celestial Nickel Mining Exploration | 1.30 | 120,000 | ||||||||
| Toledo Mining Corp. | |||||||||||
| 2019 | Dominican Republic | Cerro de Maimon (Cumpie Hill, Loma Mala, | 1.70 | NA | 4 | NA | NA | ||||
| (Las Jarditas) | Corozal Ridge) | ||||||||||
| GlobeStar Mining Corp. | |||||||||||
| 2019 | Indonesia | La Sampala | 1.50 | 200,000 | 46,000 | NA | |||||
| (Sulawesi) | Rio Tinto plc | 1.30 | 190,000 | ||||||||
| 2020 | Albania | Devolli (Verniku and Kapshtica West) | 1.19 | 22,000 | NA | Leachate precipitate. | |||||
| (Korce District) | European Nickel PLC | 1.21 | 14,000 | ||||||||
| See footnotes at end of table. | |||||||||||
| TABLE 13�Continued | |||||||||||
| NICKEL: NEW LATERITE PROJECTS SCHEDULED FOR COMPLETION BEFORE 2020, BY YEAR | |||||||||||
| Estimated | |||||||||||
| resources | Annual production | ||||||||||
| Projected | Resource | (thousand | capacity | ||||||||
| year of first | Country and | grade | metric | (metric tons of | |||||||
| production | state/province | Project and company1 | (% nickel) | tons)2, 3 | contained nickel) | Nickel product | |||||
| 2020 | Australia | Wingellina | 0.95 | 210,000 | 40,000 | Ni-Co hydroxide. | |||||
| (Western Australia) | Metals X Ltd. and Jinchuan Group Ltd. | ||||||||||
| 2020 | C�te d'Ivoire | Biankouma, Touba, Sipilou | 1.57 | 120,000 | 45,000 | Ni-Co intermediate | |||||
| Xstrata Nickel and Soci�t� d'�tat pour le | 1.40 | 140,000 | or ferronickel. | ||||||||
| Developpement Minier | |||||||||||
| 2020 | Indonesia | Gag Island | 1.35 | 240,000 | 30,000 | Intermediate, metal, | |||||
| (Maluku) | BHP Billiton Group, PT Aneka Tambang, | or ferronickel. | |||||||||
| Xstrata Nickel | |||||||||||
| NA Not available. | |||||||||||
| 1Company names reflect organizational structure as of August 3, 2007. BHP Billiton Group is a dual listed company comprising of BHP Billiton� | |||||||||||
| Limited and BHP Billiton Plc. Vale Inco Limited is a wholly owned subsidiary of Companhia Vale do Rio Doce. | |||||||||||
| 2Gross weight, dry. | |||||||||||
| 3"Estimated resources" are rounded to no more than two significant digits. When two or more data sets are listed, the first resource data represent | |||||||||||
| �measured resources; the second, indicated resources; and the third, inferred resources. | |||||||||||
| 4New resource estimate in progress. | |||||||||||
| 5Purchased from Jaguar Nickel S.A. in 2005. | |||||||||||
| 6Proprietary process currently under development by Centre de Recherche de Trappes (France). | |||||||||||
| 7China Minmetals Corporation and the Government of Venezuela have both expressed an interest in investing in this long-stalled project. | |||||||||||
| Sources: Company annual reports, presentations, and press releases; CRU International, Ltd. | |||||||||||
Source: United States Geological Survey Mineral Resources Program