 LionOre was taken over by MMC Norilsk Nickel in June 2007 and, with it, all its Australian operations.Norilsk suspended all Australian nickel operations, consisting of Emily Ann, Maggie Hays, the Black Swan nickel mine, the Cawse nickel mine and the Waterloo nickel mine in early 2009 because of drastically falling nickel prices.The Maggie Hays orebody sits upon the upper surface of an overturned sequence of komatiitic ultramafic cumulates dipping west at between 65 and 75 degrees.