HIGH-GRADE NI-CU-PT-PD-ZN-CR-AU-V-TI DISCOVERIES IN THE "RING OF FIRE"

NI 43-101 Update (September 2012): 11.1 Mt @ 1.68% Ni, 0.87% Cu, 0.89 gpt Pt and 3.09 gpt Pd and 0.18 gpt Au (Proven & Probable Reserves) / 8.9 Mt @ 1.10% Ni, 1.14% Cu, 1.16 gpt Pt and 3.49 gpt Pd and 0.30 gpt Au (Inferred Resource)

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Message: May: No social license for Coniston smelter

This looks like another case of squeeky wheel gets the oil.

I'm certain if you pole the people of Sudbury, you would find that it's really only a few that oppose the smelter proposition.

A few quotes:

"content about the potentially harmful effects of chromite processing was being shared around the community via social media."

"residents were demanding answers about chemical reactions and impacts related to trivalent and hexavalent chromium emissions."

"Mayor Bigger, fresh from his tour of the Outokumpu ferrochrome facility in Finland, did the rounds with local media to assure the public that there is nothing to worry about when it comes to ferrochrome."

"Residents didn't trust the answers they received from municipal officials about industrial processes and the production of carcinogenic hexavalent chromium."

"Conistonians are telling Noront that a smelter is not wanted here, and pursuit of the facility will be opposed vigorously."

So, let's sum up what's happening here

 -- people from Coniston hear that a smelter might be built near their community and without knowing all the facts decide they don't want it there (likely to do with some movie they watched on TV).

 -- they immedicately begin to google anything negative they could find and post their slanted views on a websight, which they then direct everyone else to go to as their main source of information

 -- they are given the opportunity to ask questions, but because they're minds are already decided, they don't believe the answers (like in the movie, the company and government can't be trusted...so don't believe anything they say)

 -- other people from Sudbury, who want and need the jobs, get drowned out by a few squeeky wheels

The conclusion; 

The jobs go to another city....and when that city prospers. people from this city move to that city for the jobs.

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