Vale opens Brazil's first ferronickel plant

Vale has opened its first nickel operation in Brazil. Onça Puma, in Ourilândia do Norte, southeast Pará. The plant, one of the largest ferronickel production plants in the world, has an annual production …

Vale inaugurates Brazil's first ferronickel plant in Pará

Vale inaugurates Brazil's first ferronickel plant in Pará This month, Vale opened its first nickel operation in Brazil. Onça Puma, in Ourilândia do Norte, southeast Pará, is one of …

Vale wins battle to restart Onca Puma ops in Brazil as nickel …

Vale wins battle to restart Onca Puma ops in Brazil as nickel prices soar Author Diana Kinch; Editor Keiron Greenhalgh; Commodity Metals; Author; Diana Kinch; Editor; ... the company had continued to process nickel ore at the Onca Puma plant that was produced and stored at the site before the mining ban was enforced, it said. Colin …

Onca Puma nickel mining project in Ourilândia do Norte, …

In 2003, the Canadian mining company Canico Resource Corp., through its subsidiary Mineradora Onça Puma S.A., obtained the authorization to explore nickel …

Press release: FeNi at VALE Onca Puma, Brazil

On March 4th, 2011, the first ferronickel was granulated using GRANSHOT® metal granulation technology at VALE Onca Puma ferronickel works in Brazil's Para Region. At full capacity the plant will produce around 200 000 tonnes.

André Dondon

Comissioning and Operation Support for the Utilities Area in the Onça Puma Ferronickel plant. Process Engineer Hatch dez. de 2008 - jan. de 2011 2 anos 2 meses. São Paulo Area, Brazil ... Ourilândia do Norte, Pará, Brazil. Building of a plant to produce 160 tonnes per year of ferronickel. Work in the whole process area during detailing ...

Vale informs on Onça Puma

Vale informs, in continuity to the release dated October 7, 2021, the decision of the Judge of the Court of Justice of the State of Pará, which granted suspensive effect to the appeal filed by the State of Pará, reinstating the suspension of the Operating License of Onça Puma mine.

Vale to resume operations at Onça Puma nickel mine

Vale's nickel production in Brazil reached 16,000 tonnes in 2020. Onça Puma accounted for 7.5% of its total nickel production last year. Output at the mine is well below the nominal annual...

Vale sees no indication of environmental breach at …

The Onça Puma plant produces mainly ferronickel. ... state suspended environmental licenses for Vale's Onca Puma nickel mine and Sossego copper mine this week, flagging irregularities with an ...

Nickel price shrugs off Vale Onça Puma halt after court order

Onça Puma accounted for 7.5% of its total nickel production last year. Output at the mine is well below nominal annual capacity of 58,000 tonnes of nickel contained in ferronickel. Nickel price rally

Assurance Statement_Vale_Onça Puma Ferronickel

Vale's Onça Puma Ferronickel's 2023 Product Carbon Footprint External Assurance Statement by Intertek, July 2024 Page 2 of 6 • ISO 14064-3: 2019 Specification with Guidance for the Verification and Validation of Greenhouse Gas Statements The criteria in which the product carbon footprint report was compared against were:

Roberto Damasceno

Approximately 13 months into a challenging plant ramp-up, a series of furnace failures halted production at Vale's Onça-Puma ferronickel smelter in Pará State Brazil. Rather than re-build the equipment 'in-kind' with the original furnace supplier, Vale chose to adopt a strategy of technologically upgrading the problem areas in the smelter.

Jeff Simeone, P. Eng

Jeff is currently an engineering and project manager with twenty years experience in the design, engineering, construction, commissioning, operation and planning of various hydrometallurigical and pyrometallurigical metal and mineral processing facilities, specifically nickel, nickel matte, ferronickel, zinc, and gold. <br>Just recently, Jeff …

The Nickel Production Methods from Laterites and the Greek Ferronickel …

Baro Alto plant of Anglo American in Brazil started in 2011 and during the last 5 years (2016–2020) it had 35 kt Ni/y production, whereas the Vale Onca Puma plant in Brazil started in 2010 and its production during the last 5 years was 11.6–24.7 kt Ni/y.

Centaurus quickly advancing Brazil nickel project

Jaguar is only 15km from the Onca Puma ferronickel plant, where there is a high-voltage power station. A mining lease application has been lodged and Centaurus is targeting the lodgement of an ...

Vale's Onça Puma nickel smelter redesigned and rebuilt in …

In 2012 these engineers were asked to fly into northern Brazil to investigate the Minera Onça Puma nickel facility when its smelting operations halted due to the failure of two furnaces (provided by another supplier). The facility is Vale's first ferronickel operations in Brazil and one of the largest in the world.

Vale expects to regain Onca Puma and Sossego copper mine …

Vale has reached a deal with the state of Para to have the operating licenses of its Onca Puma nickel mine and Sossego copper mine reinstated, the Brazilian miner …

RAPID REDESIGN AND RESTART OF THE VALE ONÇA …

2 Vale Onça Puma, Estrada Vicinal Picadão S/N Zona Rural, Ourilândia do Norte, PA, Brasil, 68390-000 [email protected] ABSTRACT Approximately 13 months into a challenging plant ramp-up, a series of furnace failures halted production at Va-le's Onça-Puma ferronickel smelter in Pará State, Brazil.

Vale to restart Onça Puma nickel complex

Brazil's Vale (NYSE: VALE) has begun working on resuming operations at its $3 billion Onça Puma nickel mining complex, as the country's Supreme Court …

NICKEL MINE FEASIBILITY Onca Puma Study Due by Year …

BRAZIL Vancouver-based CANICO RESOURCE CORP. is pushing ahead at its planned Onca Puma nickel mine in Para State. ... A scoping study prepared last November by HATCH ENGINEERING indicated that a single-line rotary kiln ferronickel plant with an annual capacity of 1.2 million tonnes of ore would cost about US$560 …

Onca Puma nickel mining project in Ourilândia do Norte, Pará, Brazil

Onca Puma nickel mining project in Ourilândia do Norte, Pará, Brazil. ... The mine is expected to extract 220 thousand tons of ferronickel per year and 27 thousand tons of nickel per year. About 95% of production is destined for export. ... Pará, Brazil. Copper mining in Canaã dos Carajás and Marabá, Pará, Brazil.

Vale inaugurates Brazil's first ferronickel plant in Pará

estimated investment in Onça Puma is approximately US$2.84 billion. During the project's implementation phase, 8,000 jobs were created, and an additional 1,500 have been generated for the operational phase. "Onça Puma is a milestone, not only because it is Vale's first nickel production plant in Brazil, but also as it provides an

Award of EPCM Contract to AFRY for Construction of the …

Marcia's previous roles include Commissioning Manager of Onca Vale's Puma ferronickel plant with two eduction r furnace of 120MVA, Commissioning Director of ... key individuals in the ferronickel space in Brazil, resulting in the Company we now hav ing a very strong in-country team. The quality of the Araguaiaproject, the relevance of …

FEASIBILITY STUDY Onca Puma nickel project

BRAZIL The feasibility study of the large Onca Puma laterite nickel project in the ... The initial capital cost of the project will be US$762 million to build a mine and plant that will handle 1.28 million tonnes of ore/year and will start up in 2008. ... The Onca Puma deposit has proven and probable mineral reserves of 77.7 million tonnes ...

Vale inaugurates Brazil's first ferronickel plant in Pará

This month, Vale opened its first nickel operation in Brazil. Onça Puma, in Ourilândia do Norte, southeast Pará, is one of the largest ferronickel production plants in the world. The project ...

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United States Steel Corp. (USS), Ammonia Recovery Plant Revamp, Hamilton, ON -Baffinland Iron Mines Corporation, Mary River Project, Nunavut, Canada ... Vale Inco, Onca Puma Greenfield Project, Para State, Brazil -Skye Resources, Ferronickel Plant Revamp Project, El Estor, Guatemala -Licenses & Certifications Pumps, Valves, Actuators, …

Horizonte Minerals appoints MIP/Milpan as electro …

"MIP/Milplan have a proven track record of successfully delivering large projects in Brazil and across the mining sector, in particular a wealth of experience at a similar ferronickel project, having worked on Vale's Onça Puma ferronickel mine" Open menu ... the plant will reach a full capacity of approximately 900,000 t/y of dry ore feed …

Brazilian miner Vale halts operations at Onca Puma after …

A dds details, context. SAO PAULO, Oct 18 (Reuters) - Brazilian miner Vale VALE3.SA said on Monday that it has once again halted operations at its Onca Puma nickel mine after the state of Para ...

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plant to produce 46,000t/pa Ni and 2,800t/pa Co with a LOM of 40 years PFS to produce 32,000t/pa ferronickel grading 35% Ni with a LOM of 26 years FS Stage 1 and Stage 2 to produce 29,000t/pa ferronickel and matte grading 28% Ni with a LOM of 30 years Onça Puma (Vale) Developing a New Nickel District in an Established Mining Region …

Vale to restart Onça Puma nickel complex

The Onça Puma plant produces mainly ferronickel. ... Brazil's Vale (NYSE: VALE) has begun working on resuming operations at its $3 billion Onça Puma nickel mining complex, ...