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Brazil's Vale Expects Commercial Nickel Output At VNC In 2011

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Winter Work Program Underway at Victory Nickel's Minago Project

RIO DE JANEIRO, Mar. 1 -- Brazilian miner Vale SA (VALE, VALE5.BR), the world's second-biggest nickel producer, said Friday it expects this year to start commercial nickel metal production at its Vale New Caledonia nickel plant, which was formerly named Goro.
A trial production period at the $4.4 billion project in the South Pacific has been completed and the works is selling a preliminary nickel product to Australian buyers, Tito Martins, Vale's base metals operations director, said on a conference call.
&quot;We've commissioned the entire plant at Goro. We're optimistic about outcomes from the plant, the technology has been proved,&quot; Martins said. &quot;We hope to produce nickel metal this year.&quot;
VNC is a nickel laterite project with a production capacity of 60,000 metric tons of nickel and 4,600 tons of cobalt. It uses high-pressure acid-leaching, or HPAL, technology, which requires rigorous environmental controls.
VNC was originally expected to start up in mid-2009 but was delayed on a market slump for stainless steel, for which nickel is one of the main raw materials. The stainless-steel market has now recovered after the crisis, notching up 23.4% growth in 2010, Vale said Friday.
An acid spill at the VNC site in April 2009 also delayed the start-up schedule, Vale's nickel unit said at the time.
Vale produced 179,000 tons of nickel in 2010, down 4.2% from 2009 levels due to strike action at some mines in Canada. Output is set to grow in 2011 due to output from VNC and after the recent start-up of operations at Vale's 58,000 tons a year capacity Onca Puma nickel mine in Brazil.
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