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Nickel sector getting set for battery-charged party

A VIBRANT Australian Nickel Conference in Perth this week featuring analysts and brokers among the attendees showed belief in the return of the good times for the Australian sector is growing, though there’s one big elephant in the room that’s more or less a hangover from the huge party enjoyed last decade.

 The last nickel price boom spawned the lowest cost stainless steel production venture on the planet

The last nickel price boom spawned the lowest cost stainless steel production venture on the planet

And that's China.  Last time round the nickel price spiking into unchartered territory resulted in the emergence of the Chinese nickel pig iron sector (NPI), a big player in the nickel market to this...

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