An Australia-based critical minerals miner with plans to build a nickel mine in Ontario’s Ring of Fire region has struck a deal with the City of Greater Sudbury to secure land for a battery materials processing plant that would extend Canada’s electric-vehicle supply chain to Northern Ontario.
“The urgency to bolster North America’s capacity for processing metals — in particular, nickel — has never been more apparent. Our facility will be the missing piece that builds the capacity to process battery materials right here in Sudbury,” he said in a release. The company is also developing the Eagle’s Nest nickel mining project in Ontario’s Ring of Fire, a much touted but remote mineral development region about 500 kilometres northeast of Thunder Bay. Wyloo aims to process nickel produced at the proposed mine at the Sudbury plant.