Noront expects ‘lengthy’ enviro permitting phase for ferrochrome plant
Development company Noront Resources has settled on a site for the ferrochrome plant that it plans to build to treat ore from its chromite mines in the emerging Ring of Fire camp, but the junior is expecting “lengthy” environmental assessment phase and says commissioning of the facility is still nearly a decade away.
Noront has dropped Kidd Metsite in Timmins, Ontario, and instead selected the Algoma Steel site in Sault Ste Marie – a city on the St Mary’s river, in Ontario, for its ferrochrome plant.