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January 15, 2022 News Coverage

BHP investing US$40M in Kabanga Nickel, US$10 in Lifezone; 2nd tranche of $50M slated for Kabanga

BHP, a world leading resources company, has invested US$40 million into Kabanga Nickel in Tanzania. The money will be used to accelerate the development of the Kabanga Nickel Project—the world’s...

January 14, 2022 News Coverage

BHP’s Tanzania nickel deal shows majors need to leave their comfort zone to fuel the EV revolution

Newly hailed as a critical mineral last year by the US Geological Survey, the importance of nickel to the global mining landscape and world economy has rarely been in greater...

January 10, 2022 News Coverage

BHP backs Kabanga Nickel mine development and refinery plan

BHP has invested $40 million in Tanzania-focused Kabanga Nickel, in addition to backing Lifezone Limited and its patented hydrometallurgical technology with a $10 million investment. Kabanga Nickel Limited says its...

January 10, 2022 Company News

BHP to make an initial US$50 million investment in Kabanga Nickel and Lifezone with further investments to be agreed

Highlights Kabanga is the largest development-ready nickel sulphide deposit in the world. Located in western Tanzania, it has contained in-situ nickel equivalent resources estimated at 1.86 million tonnes and an...

December 13, 2021 News Coverage

Lifezone hydromet tech blueprint puts Kabanga Nickel in pole refining position

Kabanga Nickel is ready to put its ‘money where its technology is’ in the pursuit of production from a highly prospective nickel-copper-cobalt asset in Tanzania, according to Keith Liddell, Executive...

November 19, 2021 Resources

Elon Musk asked companies to ‘please mine more nickel’ for Tesla batteries. Now he may be getting his wish—in Tanzania

Kabanga Nickel Ltd. is seeking to raise $1.3 billion for a massive mining project in Tanzania that the company says could help ease electric-vehicle manufacturers’ insatiable demand for nickel. “We...

November 18, 2021 News Coverage

Kabanga’s Tanzania Mine May Answer Elon Musk’s Nickel Plea

Kabanga Nickel Ltd. is seeking to raise $1.3 billion for a massive mining project in Tanzania that the company says could help ease electric-vehicle manufacturers’ insatiable demand for nickel. “We...

October 28, 2021 News Coverage

Kabanga Nickel to accelerate project after securing special mining licence

Kabanga Nickel is to accelerate its project in Tanzania after receiving a special mining licence from the East African country – its first in ten years. The granting of the...

October 27, 2021 Company News

Kabanga Nickel Project Issued Special Mining Licence

Highlights Special Mining Licence issued for the Kabanga Nickel Project by the Government of Tanzania. The first Special Mining Licence granted by Government of Tanzania in ten years. With a...

September 27, 2021 News Coverage

Kabanga poised to become world-class nickel mine

Kabanga’s time has come. Not simply because it is the world’s largest development-ready nickel sulphide and cobalt deposit, but also because of two technology events: a unique metal refining system;...