Nickel can be a complex commodity for many investors to understand given its diverse deposit types, various downstream processes, and end uses. Join expert Lyle Trytten for a deep dive into different extraction practices, the current nickel market, and what the future may hold for this critical mineral.
Mr. Trytten has more than 25 years' experience in the nickel industry, and was previously General Manager, Sustainability with Sherritt International Corporation at their Alberta nickel refinery. His experience at Sherritt also includes research and development, engineering for brownfield and greenfield projects, and major project feasibility studies. Lyle has been personally involved with metallurgical operations on five continents, including a 1-year secondment to the Murrin Murrin nickel refinery in Australia (now owned by Glencore), the feasibility study for the Ambatovy mine and process plant in Madagascar, and design and commissioning of metallurgical processing facilities in the US and Indonesia.
Replay transcript excerpt
Awesome. Well, as people are coming into the room, let's go ahead and get started. So I'll say good morning, good afternoon, or good evening, depending on where you're signing in from today. Seems like a global audience today, so I appreciate everybody joining us. Today's event is a deep dive on Nickel with, may I call you expert Lyle Tritton, not to embarrass you Lyle. So before we get started, just bear with me for a couple of seconds, I'm just going to do a bit of housekeeping. So this event is going to be recorded today and The replay will be available later this afternoon. Please do feel free to share once that replay comes out. You should get it in your e-mail inbox. This is also an interactive event. Please do feel free to interact in the chat on the bottom right of your screen. There are some questions we may not be able to cover today, but feel free to pose them anyway. I'll make sure the Giga team gets back to you as soon as possible with that information. But enough out of me, I want to introduce Lyle Tritton. How are you today, Lyle? Very good today, thanks, Romeo. Awesome. Without further ado, I really do want to get into, because we've got a couple of questions I really wanted to get through before we break to audience questions. I'm going to start with, there's no real doubt in my mind or really what the press will cover, is that the world does need nickel. We'll get into why shortly. I want to start off by setting the stage for the audience today, kind of set the stakes of what the scale of the supply gap really is. So my question to you to start off is in the next 10 years, how much nickel are we lined up to have and how much we lined up to need? Well, the lined up to need is more clear than the lined up to have perhaps. If we go back about 5 years, ...
