Canadian-based Continental Nickel Ltd predicts that its new nickel mine in Tanzania will start to export its output by 2014. Their objective is to outline upwards of 50,000tns of contained nickel metal. The initial results have been encouraging, with high grades of nickel very close to surface. If feasibility study results are positive, Continental will proceed with developing mine operations, including building a floating concentrator on site that would prepare the concentrate for shipment overseas. But the company, which has spent CAN 11 million since 2007 exploring and drilling, wanted to map its site comprehensively before developing the mine. The proposed development at the Ntaka intrusion could cost in the region of CAN 120 million. The Nachingwea project is in the south of Tanzania near the border with Mozambique and about 200km from Tanzania’s Mewara port.