Talon Metals and Steelworkers Union Partner to Advance the Tamarack Nickel Project for US EV Battery Supply Chain
Union and management to work together to assess critical mineral project and explore opportunities for high paying union jobs in Minnesota's lowest income county
- Tamarack, Minnesota--(Newsfile Corp. - July 29, 2021) - Talon Metals Corp. (TSX: TLO) and the United Steelworkers union (USW) today announced a ground-breaking new workforce development partnership to advance the Tamarack Nickel Project in Tamarack, Minnesota.
- The Tamarack Nickel Project, located 54 miles west of Duluth, is the only undeveloped high-grade nickel deposit in the US with the prospect to create an integrated US-based nickel supply chain for the electric vehicle (EV) industry.
- Domestic nickel production for the battery supply chain has been a priority for both the Biden and Trump Administrations.
- Talon is also in the process of evaluating battery nickel's first transparent and traceable supply chain from the proposed mine to battery manufacturing using blockchain tracing technology.