Yesterday we brought you an in depth analysis of a fast growing Canadian Uranium company called Uranium One and today we focus on Nickel!
Before you consider purchasing this stock please remember it is a speculative stock
Crowflight Minerals Inc. is a Canadian company in its development stages that focuses on mining and exploration of Nickel. Crowflight owns the Bucko Lake Nickel Mine in Wabowden , Manitoba and is also focusing on further exploration of the Thompson Nickel Belt (TNB) in Manitoba . The TNB is said to host nickel mineralization along a geological trend that extends for over 250 kilometers. Crowflight also has a large 800 sq km prospective land position centered in two of Canada ’s most prolific nickel camps in Manitoba and Sudbury , Ontario .
Crowflights first shipment of concentrate occurred in February 2009 from the Bucko Lake Mine which has a best case production scenario of 1,000 tonnes per day to produce on average 11.1 million pounds of payable nickel per year.
Production targets for 2010 range from 1,000 tonnes per day (tpd) for Q2 2010 increasing to 1,2000tpd in the second half of 2010. Average operating cash costs for 2010 are estimated at US$5.70-5.90/lb (based on a US : CAD exchange rate of 0.94). Average costs are expected to decrease to US$5.15-5.35/lb for second half of 2010 as the mine resumes full production.
Crowflight Minerals Inc. (TSX:CML) is currently trading at approximately 17 cents per share, and has a 52week high of approximately 35 cents per share. With the economy picking up stream, and industrial production demand coming back to reasonable levels we could see interest in this stock as investors pick up small cap companies like Crowflight Minerals. A technical analysis of the stock will shed more light on the short term to medium term expectations for the share price.
What is Nickel? Nickel is a metallic element, making up 0.008% of the Earth’s crust. However, when the deeper of the Earth is included, nickel becomes more abundant, and is the fifth most common element after iron, oxygen, silicon and magnesium.
About 65% of the nickel consumed in the Western World is used to make stainless steel. Another 12% goes into superalloys. The remaining 23% of consumption is divided between alloy steels, rechargeable batteries, catalysts and other chemicals, coinage, foundry products, and plating. The largest consumer of nickel is Japan , which uses 169,600 tonnes per year (2005).
Global consumption of nickel is steadily increasing while inventories have been at historically low levels for the past five years. The forecasted supply from current and new projects is insufficient to meet the forecasted growth in demand. This is expected to be the case until 2010, supporting a strong nickel price.
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