Junior Blackstone Minerals is looking for partners to feed its planned nickel refinery in Vietnam. Speaking at the Australian Nickel conference, in Perth, Blackstone MD Scott Williamson said the company was hoping to source some 50% of the feedstock for the proposed 40 000 t/y nickel refinery, with its own the Ta Khoa nickel project (TKNP), also in Vietnam, to provide the balance.
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