ONTARIO – Sudbury will be the host of the 10th International Mines Rescue Competition from August 19-26, 2016.
An accident at 6:30 pm on April 6 at Vale’s Copper Cliff smelter has killed one man and severely injured another while they were working in the casting/crushing plant.
ONTARIO – Vale has taken delivery of the first of four new converters as part of its Clean AER (atmospheric emissions reduction) project in Sudbury. The project involves a complete retrofit of the converter aisle in the Copper Cliff…
RIO DE JANEIRO – At the end of October the world’s largest mining company, Vale SA announced its worldwide capital spending plans of US$24 billion for 2011. Although the bulk of the spending will be in Brazil, projects in Canada will receive…
ONTARIO – Vale Inco, the Brazilian miner whose 3,000 unionized Sudbury workers have been on strike since July …
The history of labour negotiations in Sudbury is long and adversarial. When talks broke down between Inco and the l…
ONTARIO – VALE INCO, a subsidiary of the Brazilian mining conglomerate COMPANHIA VALE DO RIO DOCE, intends to spend…
SUDBURY – CVRD INCO has earmarked US$66 million toward development of the Totten nickel-copper underground mine nea…
ONTARIO – CVRD INCO believes the Creighton mine near Sudbury has potential mineralization at depth to extend the li…
ONTARIO – The overall winner of the 2007 Ontario Mine Rescue competition was the team from CVRD INCOs East mine. S…
Just when we thought nickel couldnt get any more interesting, Russias NORILSK NICKEL has waded into the fray by m…
ONTARIO – CVRD INCOs South mine, in the famous Sudbury Basin of Ontario, extracts over 900,000 tonnes of nickel- a…