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How is nickel extracted? Part 1: Administrative authorizations

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Before any mining project, an essential step is required: administrative authorizations.
Well before any operation begins, official approvals must be obtained and the project must be structured down to the smallest detail.

This involves:
• defining the areas concerned
• planning the facilities
• carrying out impact studies on the environment and local populations

These steps make it possible to:
• anticipate risks
• frame the project
• integrate safety and nature protection concerns from the very start

A key point in New Caledonia:
a rehabilitation plan must be submitted even before the project is launched, in order to plan for the future of the site.

A demanding process that guarantees a regulated and responsible activity.

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