Brazil's Vale unveils $10-bn investments in Canadian operations

18 Nov 2010

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Vale SA, the world's second-largest mining company, yesterday announced that it will spend $10 billion over the next five years in its Canadian operations, just two weeks after Canada rejected BHP Billiton's proposed $38-billion acquisition of PotashCorp.

Vale, which bought Canadian nickel producer Inco Ltd in 2007 for $18.8 billion owns copper and nickel mines in Ontario and Newfoundland and Labrador, as well as a potash project in Saskatchewan.

The Rio de Janeiro, Brazil-based Vale plans to expand production in copper, upgrade facilities in its nickel operations, install new emissions cleanup technology, and develop its potash business.

It will also spend around $3.4 billion to upgrade mining and processing facilities at the company's century-old operations in Sudbury, Ontario, $200 million in building a brand new building at the current mill site at Clarabelle Mill in Sudbury and $360 million in completing its new Totten mine near Worthington.

The miner is also spending $1.5 to $2 billion in installing new emissions clean-up systems to reduce emissions of sulphur dioxide in the Sudbury Basin and $2.8 billion to build new, state-of-the-art processing facilities in Long Harbour, Newfoundland and Labrador. 

With an expected boom in demand for potash fertilizer from China and India, Vale said that it will spend $2.5 to $3 billion in developing its potash business in the province of Saskatchewan and is targeting production of 2.9 million metric tons of potash per year.

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