Brazil’s Atlantic Nickel mined 5mn mt of raw material in Q1 2021 of which 1.27mn mt was ore and 1.36mn mt was processed nickel sulfide.
The company produced 26,000mt of ore in Q1 2021, containing 3,600mt of nickel and 1,100mt of copper.
Atlantic Minerals’ Q1 2021 sold shipments amounted to $62.7mn. In terms of volume, the first shipment in February this year was 10,000mt of nickel concentrate to China.
The company’s indicated resources as of Q1 2021 were 43pc of combined tonnage at 79.83mn mt from 50mn mt previously.