Canada Nickel Company Inc. has announced it will submit its Crawford Nickel Project north of Timmins, Ont. to the federal Impact Assessment permitting process. The decision follows the acceptance by the Impact Assessment Agency of Canada of the company’s Initial Project Description of the project, stated a release. The Crawford project is expected to be among the top five largest nickel sulphide operations in the world, supplying nickel to manufacturers of stainless steel and electric vehicle batteries. The process would involve open pit mining at a site 42 kilometres north of Timmins in the Timmins-Cochrane Mining Camp of northeastern Ontario.