Nevada Chemicals Inc.

• Public
• US

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Nevada Chemicals was formed as Mining Services International (MSI) in 1979 as a provider of chemical products and services to the mining industry. MSI entered the industry providing bulk mining explosives. By the late 1980's it expanded to other mining chemicals and began production of Sodium Cyanide through its Joint Venture, Cyanco, near Winnemucca, Nevada. In late 2001, MSI sold the explosives division to a Spanish company UEE and transitioned into a new company, Nevada Chemicals, Inc. (NCI) which trades on NASDAQ as NCEM. Over the years NCI has exercised a strategy to become the largest provider of sodium cyanide to the gold mining industry operating in the United States. This successful strategy is based upon providing quality products with extraordinary service to its customers through state-of-the-art facilities and proactive management. NCI/MSI has successfully developed new technology and has licensed its technology into several significant mining areas of the world including Australia, South Africa, Namibia and Chile and provided products to large coal mines in the Western United States. In 1983, NCI (as MSI) became a public company by merging with Rocky Mountain Natural Resources, a company involved in leasing oil and gas properties in the Midwest. NCI was the surviving entity and was traded on the NASDAQ small cap market as MSIX. In 1986, the gold mining industry had begun to expand with the introduction of cyanide heap leaching to recover finely disseminated...

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