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Contractors let go after Australian nickel project halted

Michael Allan McCrae | July 11, 2013 | 8:47 pm Base Metals Australia Nickel 

Poseidon Nickel said today that "a number of mining contractors" are being laid off due to the "current shortfall in work across the industry", and that the company is bringing its previously planned six-month drill program to a temporary halt....

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