Sudbury Operations
Owner: Vale
Located in Sudbury, Canada, Sudbury operations are primarily underground nickel sulfide mines with integrated mining, milling, smelting and refining operations.
Nickel concentrate from Voisey’s Bay also passes through Sudbury’s smelting and refining stages.
From the smelter in Sudbury, nickel oxide, an intermediate product, is shipped to local Vale refinery in Sudbury in addition to refineries in the United Kingdom, Taiwan, China and South Korea.
Vale Sudbury operation also produces the by-products of copper, cobalt, platinum group metals, gold and silver.
Subury operation in Ontario, consists of following producing mines:
• Stobie Mine
• Copper Cliff North Mine
• Copper Cliff South Mine
• Creighton Mine
• Garson Mine
• Coleman Mine
• Gertrude Mine
• Ellen Mine
• Totten Mine
Mining
Nickel-Copper mining at Sudbury Operations started by Vale Inco (previously Inco) in 1885. The projected exhaustion date as of December 2008 is 2042.
At Sudbury, Vale produces two intermediate copper products, copper concentrate and copper anodes, and also produce electrowon copper cathode as a by-product of our nickel refining operations. Vale Inco has long-term copper supply agreements with Xstrata Copper Canada for the sale of copper anodes and copper concentrates produced in Sudbury. Electrowon copper from Sudbury is sold in North America under short-term sales agreements.
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