Horizonte Minerals PLC is a United Kingdom-based nickel development company. The Company owns the advanced Araguaia nickel laterite project located to the south of the Carajas mineral district of northern Brazil. The Araguaia project area consists of approximately 20 exploration licenses totaling approximately 110,170 hectares. The Company has completed diamond drilling of approximately 45,420 meters. Its fourth phase program was designed to complete infill drilling on the grids on the Pequizeiro and Jacutinga deposits of the Araguaia nickel project. Its metallurgical test program includes a series of laboratory tests designed to establish the suitability of the ore for rotary kiln processing; smelting testing; work on agglomeration, and testing for rotary kiln operation and smelting conditions, including a range of physical and chemical laboratory tests. It has started an integrated pilot plant-testing program at Morro Azul RKEF pilot plant test work facility in Minas Gerais, Brazil.