Google Direct Nickel Process - Breakthrough Technoology by F McCarthy www.directnickel.com
Looks like you'll be building the first production plant in a $30B a year industry with 2013 costs of $2-3 a pound with byproduct credits of hematite iron at 60% and magnesium oxide 95% plus others using nitric acid that is mostly recycled and made mainly from 304 with some 316 stainless steel and some teflon
PT. ANTAM who are listed supplied the limonite and saprolite to the CSIRO mini plant from there high grade Tanjung Boli mine on Halmmahera island in Indonesia in 2012 and they also initially used ore from Brazil and Wiluna WA
DNi was incorporated in Aus 11-11-05 using Drinkard Metalox Imc (DMI) using there nitric acid technology who built the first benchscale lab 2007-2009 in Chlotte West Carolina USA before upscaling to the CSIRO plant in Perth founded by Julian Malnic Russel Debney in 2006 to form Direct Nickel Pty Ltd to commercialise the
DNi process
All good from here v
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