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Rio Tinto allocates $469mn to build first new U.S. primary nickel mine

mineweb - daily news headlines | June 17, 2010 | 4:45 pm Base Metals Top Companies Nickel 

After several years of protests, litigation and delays attributed to the global economic downturn, the U.S. is about to get its first new primary nickel mine in years in the historic mining region of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. Read...

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