[Ferro-Alloys.com] 

Vale Base Metals completes Voisey’s Bay underground mine in Labrador

Vale Base Metals, a unit of Vale SA (NYSE: VALE), announced on Tuesday that it has completed the construction and commissioning of its C$4.13 billion ($2.94 billion) Voisey’s Bay nickel-copper underground mine in northern Labrador.

The expanded project will increase production of nickel in concentrate to 99 million lb. per year. In addition, underground mining will add 44.1 million lb. of copper and 5.7 million lb. of molybdenum to the yearly totals.

• [Editor:邢亚敏]