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3 unusual facts about Sherritt International


Mangoro River

As of 2012, the Sherritt International Corporation planned to use the Mangoro River as a source of water for a slurry pipeline carrying ore for the Ambatovy project mines, raising environmental concerns.

Moa, Cuba

Large nickel and cobalt deposits located in the Moa area are exploited in part by joint ventures with the Canadian company Sherritt International.

Sherritt International

The company has coal mines in Alberta and Saskatchewan and nickel laterite mines in Moa, Cuba and near Moramanga, Madagascar.


Cobalt extraction techniques

The Sherritt process is a hydrometallurgical process named for Sherritt Gordon Mines Ltd. (now Sherritt International) of Sherridon and Lynn Lake Manitoba Canada, based on the older Forward process developed by Dr. Frank Forward for the recovery of copper and nickel from those same mines.


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