could this be the next one to go like white nile speculaors talking about 20p i'm in @ 4p RAB capital have 30% so following thier lead any opinions ????

AB Talks to Miningmaven

http://www.miningmaven.com/companies/aim-mining/regency-mines/regency-mines-chairman-andrew-bell-talks-to-miningmaven/

Game changer for nickel processing

Hannah Vickers Wednesday, 29 May 2013

DIRECT Nickel is looking to change the mining industry by providing a low-cost, environmentally friendly process to treat nickel laterites. MiningNewsPremium.net was at the official pilot plant opening in Perth on Friday.

Direct Nickel managing director and CEO Russell Debney at the official launch of the company's test plant. Courtesey of Direct Nickel.

The revolutionary process, which is being tested at CSIRO’s Australian Minerals Research Centre at Curtin University in Western Australia, uses nitric acid and is capable of processing nickel laterites easily and with very little waste.

Most nickel in the past has been from sulphides, which are processed using standard flotation techniques but laterites are very different.

Direct Nickel chief executive officer and managing director Russel Debney said the existing laterite processes were known for their high intensity.

“Not only that, the processes that are currently available are selective so that a process to treat the iron-rich limonite section of a laterite would be a different process from that used to treat the magnesium-rich saprolite layer,” he told MiningNewsPremium.

“The DNi process treats both in the same flow sheet.”

Direct Nickel project manager and technology head Graham Brock said the process was needed to open up the nickel laterite deposits around the world.

“Unfortunately most of the easy sulphides have been found and finding new ones is getting harder and harder,” he said.

Companies waiting for an effective way to treat laterites won’t have to wait much longer.

In the Direct Nickel process, material is crushed to around 2mm then conveyed into leaching tanks where it will sit for approximately four hours at 100 degrees Celsius before separating out anything that didn’t dissolve in the nitric acid from the solutions.

Iron, aluminium, cobalt and nickel are all produced from the process, along with magnesium nitrate which is processed into magnesium oxide and can be sold as a by-product.

The nitric acid left at the end of the process is sent back through pipes to the first leaching tank to start its work again, with more than 90% of the acid recycled.

As a result, the amount of reagent left in tailings is very small compared to alternative processes and will be easily neutralised.

In addition to Direct Nickel and CSIRO stakeholders, WA Mines and Petroleum Minister Bill Marmion and Chilean ambassador Pedro Pablo Diaz Herrera were on the scene for the opening.

“I must take my hat off to everyone here involved in this process,” Marmion said.

Speaking with MiningNewsPremium, Marmion said the development of the Direct Nickel process was important for the state, especially because of how inexpensive it would be to run.

“It actually opens up a whole lot of extra resources for Western Australia and the world,” he said.

Partnering with CSIRO has given Direct Nickel the ability to run the test plant for a full year and give the company time to get a real feel for the process, according to Brock.

“If we did the same exercise in a commercial facility, we’d probably spend all the money we’re going to spend in a year here in a month and we just would not get the data that is needed to demonstrate and to confirm all the things we know about this process,” he said.

“So it’s a fantastic opportunity to be able to run this plant here for a whole 12 months.”

Having the plant running for a while also gives the company an opportunity to greet sceptics as well as potential investors.

Brock said roughly 60 visitors had come to the plant in March and April and of the 40 who expressed interest, 20 might be serious about getting involved.

The pilot plant, which has been running since January and is processing around 1 tonne per day of ore, will operate through October.

“We’re going to learn so much,” Brock said, while taking stakeholders on a tour of the facilities.

“If we’re going to find a problem, we’ve got time to do it.”

The plant has already processed ore from Indonesia before recently starting work on Brazilian samples without any difficulty.

Should things go according to plan, the first commercial Direct Nickel plant will be operational by 2017.

“The world has been waiting a long time for this breakthrough and it is literally weeks and months away,” Debney said.

http://www.pngindustrynews.net/storyview.asp?storyid=798530436&sectionsource=s0

Edison latest RGM....

http://www.edisoninvestmentresearch.com/researchreports/Regency110613update.pdf

Latest News Letter From RGM 13/06/13

https://www.dropbox.com/s/uczwxstk1yd9ynx/RES_1306_AU_LR_Fraser_Range%20%281%29.pdf

("Regency" or the "Company")

Fraser West Project - Update on Disposal 1 July 2013

http://www.moneyam.com/action/news/showArticle?id=4623808

News Letter 15/07/2013


Dear Shareholders and Colleagues,
This summer has been one of British sporting success – a Briton winning Wimbledon, a successful Lions tour, and (perhaps) victory in the Ashes. We would improve your summer, and our own, if we could produce some small victories for Regency. We are working towards that, in a discouraging market.
Sudan
On Friday two of our geologists returned from a target identification field trip to Sudan.
Gary Hurst, project manager, and Amy Linehan, project geologist, flew out to Khartoum a fortnight ago to meet with the Head of the Agromineral Department at the Ministry of Minerals, where they spent time researching, talking to local geologists and arranging logistics, before flying out to Port Sudan. From there, they took a team of eight people into the field at our Red Sea concession.
From their temporary base camp in the desert, five days were spent exploring for evaporite sequences by traversing the field, taking samples, doing some basic mapping, field reconnaissance and structural analysis of the lithologies.
A great deal was achieved before the beginning of Ramadan brought our programme to a close. A detailed report of the trip will be released via RNS.

Fraser Range
All Australians, and some of you, know of the great success that Australian company Sirius has found with their Nova and Bollinger nickel-copper-cobalt deposits in Western Australia. Their story is one that all exploration companies strive to emulate and market attention is focussed on companies with adjacent tenements.
Late last year we announced that we agreed the sale of the majority of the rights to our Fraser West Project in Australia to RAM Resources Limited (ASX:RMR)("RAM"), a company listed on the Australian Stock Exchange. The map below demonstrates the location of these tenements in Fraser Range in relation to Sirius’.
With just two days’ notice from RAM, we have been able to arrange a team of 5 geologists (borrowed from Red Rock Resources and not currently doing field work) to work on this Regency project that is being carried out on behalf of RAM. The decision was made following discussions with RAM given the need to get feet on the ground working before the licence anniversary.
The work is important and exciting, and it is a tribute to the efficiency of our systems that we are able to pick something up and hit the ground running so promptly. From the H&S protocols, to the logistical planning, budget and field work proposal, we are always ready for swift mobilisation. We are able to rely on an outstanding staff who worked efficiently to get both the Sudanese and Australian reconnaissance trips off the ground.
The team will be flying out in two groups today and Wednesday, for approximately 2-3 weeks in the field.
The following photos are from a reconnaissance trip to Fraser Range undertaken in April this year and demonstrate the environment our geo team will be working in over the next few weeks.
Fraser Range is a project that excites all of us. RAM is at the start of a road that has the potential for failure, but also for success that could transform us.

Fraser Range Exploration Update From Ram...

http://www.tradingroom.com.au/apps/company_annoucements.ac?contentUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fnewsstore.com.au%2Fapps%2FviewDocument.ac%3Fsy%3Dtpl_nws%26ss%3DTPL%26docID%3DGCA01425360RMR%26backTo%3Dhttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.tradingroom.com.au%2Fapps%2Fqt%2Fquote.ac%3Fcode%3Drmr

Regency Mines Plc Update on Direct Nickel Limited 19 July 2013

http://www.moneyam.com/action/news/showArticle?id=4635341

Jul 19 2013 – Direct Nickel produces first marketable Nickel Concentrate

http://www.directnickel.com/category/news/

Direct Nickel and PT Antam sign an agreement to develop nickel laterite deposits and processing plants in Indonesia

http://www.asx.com.au/asxpdf/20130722/pdf/42h5jnmvg3l09l.pdf

Ram Resources
$1.5m Capital Raising / Appointment of Managing Director

http://www.tradingroom.com.au/apps/company_annoucements.ac?contentUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fnewsstore.com.au%2Fapps%2FviewDocument.ac%3Fsy%3Dtpl_nws%26ss%3DTPL%26docID%3DGCA01427946RMR%26backTo%3Dhttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.tradingroom.com.au%2Fapps%2Fqt%2Fquote.ac%3Fcode%3DRMR%26type%3Dlivequote%26sy%3Dtpl

Ram Resources New Web Site

http://www.ramresources.com.au/

News Letter.. 26/7/2013

http://www.regency-mines.com/files/3113/7485/1035/RGM_Newsletter_July_26.pdf

Ram Resources Limited
Quarterly Activities Report
Quarter ended 30 June 2013

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Update on the Red Sea Concession, Sudan 05 August 2013

http://www.moneyam.com/action/news/showArticle?id=4644938

Sudan Agrominerals Report RGM

Sudan: Cultivating its Agrominerals Potential is a Win-Win Strategy

http://miningmaven.com/images/stories/RGMFeature2013.pdf

Australian Mining Technology

Success For DNi Test Plant

http://www.directnickel.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Asia-Miner-Sept-Oct-2013.pdf

Michael Forrest Talks To A.B about the process for recovery of Nickel from Laterites..

OCT 2013
http://www.regency-mines.com/files/3913/8064/4223/Nickel_MaterialsWorld_Oct2013.pdf

Very positive news coming from.
DIRECTNICKEL.COM
Shareholder Update 30 September 2013
Message from the CEO

http://www.directnickel.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/Shareholder-Update-30-Sept-2013.pdf

On The Move

Update on Direct Nickel Limited - Test Plant

http://www.moneyam.com/action/news/showArticle?id=4681372

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Ram Resources All RMR resolutions passed.

http://www.asx.com.au/asxpdf/20131008/pdf/42jwvpqxf55cyt.pdf