And it was always the same dream: in the dream I'd be asleep, I'd wake up, sit up in my bed, and he'd be sitting there on the edge of my bed, staring at me, with the bullet hole still in his chin, about the size of a nickel.
The EPA will impose on the company a pollution reduction program which could include upgrades to the mine's water treatment facilities and management of the mine water discharge, including tighter limits for nickel and zinc, for example.
The report found concentrations of total and dissolved nickel (0.041 mg/L and 0.037 mg/L, respectively) that exceeded Australian drinking water guidelines.
Lower down the market, Finland's Talvivaara Mining Company, hit hard by a water leak which has stopped production at a nickel mine in the east of the country, recovered 21.6p to 105p.
Commodities fell to a nine-month low as silver, copper and nickel tumbled.
It noted that the current environmental protection licence held by Clarence Colliery does not specify a limit for nickel and this, along with the licence conditions for other contaminants, should be brought in line with national water quality guidelines.
The country now has to import over a third of its copper, half its nickel and three-quarters of its tin, zinc and cobalt.
This means that although the five gateway metals aluminium, copper, nickel, tin and zinc represent only 10% of the risk pyramid, they unlock 25 of the remaining 41 metals, accounting, all told, for 60% of the whole.
And nickel processing provides cobalt, palladium, rhodium and scandium.
Nickel prices have risen by 11%, and copper prices by 7%.In this section Overview Output, demand and jobs Prices and wages Economic performance versus potential Money and interest rates The Economist commodity price index Stockmarkets Trade, exchange rates and budgets Commodity prices Reprints.
Falconbridge, a big nickel producer, reckons demand could exceed supply by 20,000 tonnes this year.In this section OUTPUT, DEMAND AND JOBS PRICES AND WAGES ROAD DEATHS COMMODITY PRICE INDEX Reprints.
