Vale mining news

Vale has reported the first ore production on its Reid Brook deposit at the Voisey's Bay Mine Expansion Project in Northern Labrador, Canada.

BHP, Rio Tinto, and Vale have launched the Charge On Innovation Challenge, a global competition for technology innovators to develop new concepts for large-scale haul truck electrification systems.

Vale has gradually started the operation of the tailings filtration plant located at the Vargem Grande Complex in Minas Gerais, totalling US$2.3 billion in investments between 2020 and 2024.

Vale has announced that it has concluded the sale of its ownership interest in Vale Nouvelle-Calédonie S.A.S. to the Prony Resources New Caledonia consortium.

Vale has started operation of the tailings filtration plant located at the Vargem Grande Complex, the first of four filtration plants to be operated at Vale’s sites in Minas Gerais, Brazil.

Anglo Pacific Group PLC has announced that it has agreed to acquire a holding company that, in turn, holds a 70% net interest in a stream on cobalt production from the Voisey's Bay mine in Canada.

Vale has informed that the emergency level of the Itabiruçu dam, located at the Itabira Complex, has been removed after a thorough analysis of its geotechnical characteristics.

Although the pandemic-related impacts and measures reduced productivity in all businesses and postponed the start-up of the new iron ore assets in 2020, Vale remains confident to achieve 400 million tpy capacity by the end of 2022.

Vale has entered into a Global Settlement to repair the environmental and social damage resulting from the Brumadinho dam rupture.

Vale has informed that Samarco has commenced the gradual resumption of its operations, with the integrated restart of operations at the Germano and Ubu Complexes in Brazil.