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Tati Nickel set to relaunch as Tataki

NEW GROWTH: Caner
NEW GROWTH: Caner

High profile delegates, including top government officials and investors, are today (Tuesday) due to witness the reopening of Tati Nickel Mine, now renamed Tataki and promising revenues of $4.2 billion (P56bn) over the next decade.

Austrian investor, Cevdet Caner, and his investment firm, NIU Invest SE, have pledged to invest $200 million (P2.7bn) over a 10-year period to bring Phoenix Mine at Tataki back to profitable operations, creating more than 3,000 direct and indirect jobs.

President Duma Boko as well as Minerals and Energy minister, Bogolo Kenewendo, are scheduled to witness the relaunch, which comes at a time when minerals such as nickel, copper, cobalt, and platinum group metals, are critically in demand globally.

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