Under the scope of the project, Ausenco and SRK will prepare both the pre-feasibility and revised pre-feasibility studies for Dumont project.
Work on the feasibility study is already underway or completed during the pre-feasility stage and the results of the feasibility study are expected to be announced by mid 2013.
Royal Nickel Corp president and chief executive officer Tyler Mitchelson said "Ausenco and SRK have a deep level of knowledge and experience from their previous work, both at Dumont and other large open pit mining projects in Canada and abroad.
Royal Nickel Corp is a mineral resource company focused primarily on the exploration, evaluation, development and acquisition of base metal and platinum group metal properties