Onca Puma nickel mining project in Ourilândia do …

Technical information of the contested project. 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. The …

Vale's Onça Puma nickel smelter redesigned

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.

Onca Puma Ferronickel

Onça Puma Ferronickel is produced in compliance with ISO 9001:2015 and ISO 14001:2015. For further information about our products, please visit our website () or contact …

Vale opens Brazil's first ferronickel plant

More. 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 capacity …

Vale halts production at Onca Puma nickel mine …

In 2020, Vale reported 16,000 tonnes of nickel production in Brazil. In September 2019, Vale resumed both mine and processing plant operations at the $3bn Onca Puma complex, following the suspension of injunctions …

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 …

Simulation of weathered profiles coupled with multivariate …

The final result is a series of equally probable representations of the Puma deposit, which are used to quantify and assess the uncertainty about key aspects of the project at the Puma deposit, such as the uncertainty of the in-situ resources documented herein, and the strict control of the ore's quality that feeds the ferronickel processing ...

Vale expects to regain Onca Puma and Sossego copper mine …

The Onça Puma plant produces mainly ferronickel. (Image: Agência Vale) ... The Onca Puma nickel mine has an estimated annual nominal capacity of 27,000 metric tons, …

NICKEL EXPLORATION – Updated mineral resources for Onca-Puma

BRAZIL - CANICO RESOURCE CORP. of Vancouver has updated its mineral resource estimates for the Onca-Puma nickel laterite project in Para State. The estimates are presented on Canico's website, Measured and indicated resources are 98.6 million tonnes grading 1.7% Ni and 18% Fe, with a SiO2/MgO ratio of 1.79 (1% Ni cutoff).

Vale's Onca Puma ferro-nickel plant operates through …

Brazilian miner Vale is operating a nickel processing plant at the Onca Puma project, an Amazon mine where a court has ordered mining activities halted, the company's nonferrous metals chief told ...

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 million. To double the capacity ...

Onça Puma Ferronickel

Typical analysis (wt %) Onça Puma Ferronickel is an iron nickel metallic shot used as a feed material in stainless steel production. Vale's ferronickel is produced by a state of …

Vale's Onça Puma nickel smelter redesigned

Vale's Onça Puma nickel smelter redesigned and rebuilt in record time. The Hatch Furnace Group minimised the plant's production losses with a record-setting furnace rebuild, …

Vale Still Operating Nickel Processing Plant at Onca Puma

Vale Still Operating Nickel Processing Plant at Onca Puma. Thursday, December 3, 2015; Source:ferro-alloys ... Keywords:Nickel [Fellow]While the plant continues to process ore into ferronickel, Vale has stopped operations at the open pit mine where it obtains the nickel ores, Jennifer Maki, Vale's head of base metals, said on the ...

Brazil's Vale makes first ferronickel shipment from Onca Puma

The $2.84 billion Onca Puma project has an annual production capacity of220,000 mt of ferronickel, containing 53,000 mt of nickel. --Andy Blamey, andy_blamey@platts To continue reading you must login or register with us.

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 …

Brazil's Vale makes first ferronickel shipment from Onca Puma

Brazilian mining group Vale made the first shipment of ferronickel from its newly opened Onca Puma operation in southwestern Para state on May 11, the company said late Monday. 탐구하다 S&P Global S&P Global; S&P Dow Jones Indices; S&P Global Market Intelligence; S&P Global Mobility; S&P Global Commodity Insights ...

Onca Puma Ferronickel

in Brazil. Low impurity levels and high nickel content make Onça Puma Ferronickel ideally ... Onça Puma Ferronickel is produced in compliance with ISO 9001:2015 and ISO 14001:2015. ... Onca_Puma_Ferronickel.pptx Created Date: 6/6/2022 1:24:38 PM ...

Vale sees no indication of environmental breach at …

The environmental secretary of Para state suspended environmental licenses for Vale's Onca Puma nickel mine and Sossego copper mine this week, flagging irregularities with an annual environment ...

Assurance Statement Vale Onça Puma Ferronickel

The product carbon footprint of Onça Puma Ferronickel for 2023 is provided below: Table 1: Onça Puma Ferronickel's 2023 Product Carbon Footprint Scope (Cradle-to-Gate) Product Carbon Footprint (tonne CO 2e / tonne of Ni equivalent) * Scope 1+2 Scope 1, 2 & 3 (upstream) Onça Puma Ferronickel 23.3 28.0

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's Nickel Plant Halts Operations After Windstorm …

Vale, the Brazilian mining giant, has temporarily stopped production at its Onça Puma nickel plant in Pará state. The shutdown came after a fierce windstorm on October 5, 2024, damaged the local power transmission network. ... Onça Puma, located in Ourilândia do Norte, plays a crucial role in Brazil's nickel industry. The country ranks ...

Onça Puma Furnace 1 Rebuild

Vale's first ferronickel operation in Brazil and one of the largest in the world; When smelting operations halted due to the failure of two furnaces from another supplier, we investigated the facility; Completely rebuilt the furnace crucible, calcine transfer system, and slag handling and upgraded to the cooling water system

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.

Onça Puma Ferronickel

Onça Puma Ferronickel is produced in compliance with ISO 9001:2015 and ISO 14001:2015. For further information about our products, please visit our website () or contact a regional sales representative. Disclaimer: The product descriptions and specifications contained in this document are made in accordance with

Brazil's Vale makes first ferronickel shipment from Onca Puma

The first shipment, of 1,078 mt of ferronickel containing 385 mt ofnickel, was made via the port of Itaqui in Sao Luis, Maranhao, the companysaid. The product was …

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 ...

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

Circular Mining: Vale Base Metals and BluestOne sign long …

Vale Base Metals has signed a commercial off-take and non-binding MOU with BluestOne, a leading Brazilian company that transforms waste to products for agriculture, to provide up to 50,000 tonnes per year of refinery slag from its …

Vale Starts Nickel Operations at Brazilian Plant

Vale has started nickel production operations at its $2.48bn Onca Puma ferronickel plant in south-east Para, Brazil. The plant will use deposits of lateritic nickel from areas in the Onça Mountain, which are close to the plant, and from the Puma Mountain, around 16km away. The