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Nickel forecasting fraught with danger

Forecasting the nickel price would seem a mug’s game at the best of times let alone in the current era of uncertainty featuring the impact of COVID-19 and the huge potential increase in demand from the EV-battery revolution.

 Nickel price should be set to sail once EV/battery revolution kicks-in

Nickel price should be set to sail once EV/battery revolution kicks-in

Dan Lougher, the managing director of miner Western Areas, perhaps summed it up best at Paydirt's Australian Nickel Conference with his comment "nickel is fickle and it goes where it wants". Analyst...

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