ACCENT: Ring's potential 'astounding'
By: Stan Sudol, Sudbury Star, November 15, 2013

...At the recent Noront Resources’ annual general meeting, Alan Coutts, the company’s new president and CEO, was also very enthusiastic about the future resource potential of the Ring of Fire camp. A professional geoscientist, Coutts has more than 25 years] of executive management experience — mostly with the Falconbridge/Xstrata organization — in a variety of roles, across multiple commodities, including nickel and zinc, and in many remote locations in Canada and abroad.

"The Ring of Fire represents a wonderful exploration opportunity for a host of mineral deposits,” Coutts said. “I'm excited about the prospects for new nickel sulphide — PGM discoveries in the region. In my experience, these deposits tend to occur in clusters, whether it's Canada, Russia or Australia. To think that Noront's Eagle's Nest deposit is the only one is like saying that there will only be one nickel mine in the Sudbury basin.

"Noront's plan over the next three years is to develop Eagle's Nest and our exploration activities will be focused on the discovery of additional Ni-Cu-PGM deposits."

Noront has the largest land holdings in the Ring of Fire.

While the Eagle’s Nest nickel mine is its first priority, Coutts intends to also work on the Blackbird chromite deposit that contains 44 million tonnes. "We are confident that the Blackbird chromite resource can be significantly increased. We may develop the chromite potential alone or look to do something in partnership with other industry players in the region.”...