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Article: Big shoes to fill: First Nickel Inc. wants the headframe at Falconbridge Ltd.'s Lockerby Mine to bear ore once more.(NEWS)
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- Northern Ontario Business
- Article date:
- January 1, 2005
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In work as in ping-pong, First Nickel Inc. CEO Elizabeth Kirkwood has never let the boys win.
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"I never let anybody win," she says. "If two sailboats are going the same direction as far as I'm concerned it's a race."
She and her partners, mostly geologists, are in the process of acquiring a 100 per cent interest in Falconbridge Ltd's Lockerby Mine north of the Greater Sudbury Basin, with the intent to bring the mine back into production.
Winning is her nature. Even at red lights.
"Young guys think they are so smart," she giggles with delight.
"But it is fun when a middle-aged woman beats them ...