Mr. Robert Osborne is a world renown nickel laterite expert, senior geologist and a member of the Professional Engineers of Ontario with over 45-years global experience in project evaluation, development and technical support in integrating the mining and processing of nickel laterites. Mr. Osborne has worked with nickel laterite deposits in Australia, Africa, Brazil, Guatemala, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Solomon Islands, and New Caledonia in areas of project acquisition due diligence, drilling and sampling, resource and reserve estimation, production and ore quality control. Mr. Osborne retired from Vale Exploration Canada in 2009 as the Chief Geologist for Nickel Laterites and has since been active as an independent consultant.
In this video Robert is discussing generally and more specifically the formation, mining and processing of nickel laterites in southern Oregon during a consulting trip to for Homeland Nickel. This scene was filmed at the Red Flat which has a historic resource of around 40 million tons of ore grading around 1% nickel, which is slated to be drilled and updated in the fall of 2026.
Homeland Nickel
Homeland Nickel is a Canadian-based mineral exploration company focused on critical metal resources with nine nickel projects in Oregon, United States, two with historical resources. The Cleopatra Property alone contains a historical resource of approximately 40 Mt of laterite grading 0.9% nickel making it the largest historical undeveloped nickel resource in the continental United States. Homeland Nickel’s common shares trade on the TSX Venture Exchange under the symbol “SHL”.
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