Activity at Vale's On??a Puma nickel unit in the Brazilian northern state of Par?? will ramp up throughout November following a favorable judicial ruling allowing it to reopen, the company's chief of base metals operations, Mark Travers, said.
The smelter at the site has been running as normal using stocked nickel ore, Travers added in a conference call on Friday October 25 to discuss the company's third-quarter earnings. Inventories have lower-content ore that will be supplanted by freshly mined material throughout the first half of 2020.A judicial decision stopped mining activities at On??a Puma in September 2017 while the processing plant was halted in June this year. The Brazilian Supreme Court authorized all...