Ann: Mining Lease Granted for Isabel Nickel Project - San Jorge, page-218

HC post - regarding Axiom , and the clear investment case for Nickel Laterite ore , especially the San Jorge , nickel laterite ore with cobalt :
https://hotcopper.com.au/threads/avq.4417061/page-98?post_id=35582621#.W6b99xZ_WEc

Draw your attention to the following points -

** Battery demand - pure sulphides ,
NB- nickel sulphides are not as critical as believed generally .

*Nickel (battery grade even) sulphides can be generated from all sources of Nickel - made. Depends on costs / demand requirements

*****Battery usage of Nickel is currently only 3% of world usage . *********
(Apologies above - is increasing at rate of 30% per year - becoming more and more significant.., in the Future . )

****Stainless steel , steel alloying , galvanising —accounts for 79% of world use and demand for nickel - increasing at average of 5-5.5% per year - way into the foreseeable future !
NB-
Stainless steel , galvinising demand for nickel - demand for suitable laterite nickel ores - has increased by 8% in first quarter of 2018 .
(laterites , including ferrous iron nickel ‘pig iron’ also . Adaptable . Multi - uses )

—Stainless steel nickel cannot be recycled

****Watch the LME - Nickel commodity outlook , which explains all this - in London video a few weeks ago . ** ( only ~ 30 minutes )
(Someone also has posted it separately- in new Nickel Ore thread . )