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Horizonte Minerals' Araguaia nickel saprolite project in the Pará state of Brazil

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The plan was to extract around 20,000t of material to demonstrate reconciliation to model, and test geotechnical and hydrogeological parameters as part of the ongoing feasibility study. The piles of material surrounding the mine are individual standard mining units which have been assayed, surveyed and weighed as part of the reconciliation process.

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