You can imagine that the USA located company, EEStech, could do the same for Noront one day. A win win. And notice the words from Timmins mayor about the tailings facility

The chrome story just keeps on growing in job opportunity for Ontario

Note: that the  waste ends up being a high-grade foundry sand suitable for export to the worlds metal-casting industry

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Oct. 19, 2019

https://www.saultstar.com/news/local-news/timmins-expects-to-get-ferrochrome-plant

Mayor George Pirie remains confident Timmins will ultimately be the location of the ferrochrome processing facility which Noront Resources awarded to Sault Ste. Marie earlier this year.

They haven’t done the consultations with the right Indigenous groups. You can see the fact that they don’t have the right area set up for the product and the tailings facilities — we do

https://insideevs.com/news/361430/tesla-big-casting-machine-frame/

Elektrek, which has also disclosed the new patent application, remembers Elon Musk said last June Tesla would move into aluminum casting for the structure of vehicles. Musk even said that when his company got “the big casting machine” – now we know what he meant – it would go “from 70 parts to 1.”

The big casting machine may be a hell of an investment, but it can save a lot in terms of fewer robots of people involved in welding or gluing the metal together

2 days ago,

Nov. 24, 2019

EESTech Announces Progress on Samancor "Zero Waste" FeCr Slag Recycling Project

NEW CASTLE, Del., Nov. 24, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- EESTech (OTC:EESH)

EkoInfo, the highly credentialled environmental engineering firm appointed by EESTech to undertake the necessary Environmental Impact Assessment submissions, has recently made formal public disclosure of EESTech's Ferrochrome (FeCr) Slag Reclamation Project to be located at Samancor Chrome's Ferrometals facility at Emalahleni, 108km east of Pretoria, South Africa.

As required by South Africa's environmental waste management regulatory guidelines, EESTech has released through both newspaper and local mailings details of its proposed commissioning of a FeCr slag recycling facility capable of processing approximately 650,000 tons of FeCr slag per annum.

A "Background Information Document (BID)" which overviews the project has been made available to the public and features the environmental benefits of the project, notably the capability of EESTech to deliver an industry first, "zero waste" outcome FeCr slag reclamation project

Oct. 15, 2018

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/eestech-announces-thermasand-from-mine-site-and-process-waste-300730433.html

Under the terms of Agreement, Samancor Chrome will purchase all Ferrochrome metal recovered by EESTech that meets agreed specifications.

All EESTech post-process tailings are transformed into environmentally stable, inert, sand-products suitable for a wide variety of commercial applications.

All sand products are owned by EESTech, to be marketed as ThermaSandTM, a high-grade foundry sand suitable for export to the worlds metal-casting industry.

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August 2019

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/eestech-announces-environmental-impact-assessment-for-samancor-project-300904070.html

This project is being well received as it will significantly reduce or eliminate the environmental liabilities of mine site and process waste, whilst optimising the profitable recovery of valuable resources from discard tailings, slag dumps and fines dams, located at mine sites and downstream process facilities.

EESTech will deliver Samancor a "zero waste" management solution, where EESTech's advanced process technologies will reclaim up to 99% of residual FeCr units from the stockpiled slag. A single processing facility can process over 600,000 tons of slag waste per year. Under the terms of contract, Samancor will purchase all FeCr metal reclaimed by EESTech at a contracted and pre-determined price.

The EESTech proprietary process results in all post process tailings (PPT) being transformed into purified inert sand products that are in demand for in a variety of downstream applications.