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Title: NexMetals Metallurgy Results Create a Potentially Quicker and Cheaper Pathway to Production
Canada, 12th Sep 2025– Global Stocks News – Sponsored content disseminated on behalf of NexMetals Mining. On September 3, 2025, NexMetals Mining (TSXV: NEXM) (NASDAQ: NEXM) announced a significant metallurgical break though at its past-producing copper-nickel-cobalt Selebi Mines in Botswana.NexMetals owns two previously-producing Cu-Ni-Co mines in Botswana, a safe, mineral-rich Tier 1 mining jurisdiction in Africa. The underground Selebi Mines were in production between 1980 and 2016. Both Selebi and Selebi North mines, having produced 40 million tonnes of ore, were put into Care & Maintenance due to low metal prices and a failure of the on-site smelter.Smelters are not cheap to build, refurbish or operate. A planned copper smelter in Kazakhstan has a projected $1.5 billion price tag. The environmental permitting required for smelters can add years, if not decades, to the development process.Following NexMetals’ bulk sample-based metallurgical program at its Selebi Mines in Botswana, the company has created “the optionality to produce both a saleable copper concentrate and a saleable nickel concentrate”.September 3, 2025 metallurgical news highlights:on-site smelter may not be requiredsignificant reduction in capital expendituresimplified permitting processsmaller environmental footprintlower energy costsexpanded commercial pathways for mined productsmore competitive environment for off-take agreementsreduction of operational complexityFewer highly specialised employees requiredFaster, cheaper, more efficient re-start"This is the largest transformational step forward for the Selebi Mines that could materially change this asset,” stated NexMetals CEO Morgan Lekstrom in the September 3, 2025 press release. “We now have the optionality to generate two separat...
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