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Vale Base Metals is uniquely placed as North America’s largest integrated nickel producer and among the largest copper businesses globally with the scale, resources and capital to deliver critical minerals essential for the global decarbonization and electrification megatrends.

The company has secured agreements to supply low carbon and high purity nickel to major automakers and is strategically focused on expanding mine life and development of growth projects across the portfolio.

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In nickel these include the Onça Puma 2nd furnace in Brazil, the Pomalaa and Morowali projects in Indonesia, and the Voisey’s Bay Mine Expansion in Canada.

Vale Base Metals is a top 10 copper producer in the Americas with an operating base concentrated in Brazil that includes the country’s largest copper deposit at Salobo with 40-plus years of remaining life, complemented by a strong pipeline of development and growth projects from Alemão, Cristalino and Bacaba in Brazil to the large- scale Hu’u project in Indonesia.

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Nickel​

We are one of the world's largest and most carbon-efficient producers of this important metal.

Nickel is rarely used in its pure form and is instead combined with other metals such as iron, chromium and copper. It is used to make alloys such as cast iron, steel (including austenitic stainless steels) and non-ferrous alloys. It is also used in nickel-based alloys, which have more demanding applications.​

The electric vehicle industry is currently increasing the demand for low-carbon and high purity nickel products, essential for long-range batteries.

Used in:

Batteries for electric vehicles, bathroom taps and shower heads, coins, mobile phones, jet engines, cutlery.

Learn more about our nickel products:

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Nickel Pellet Products

Nickel Pellets:

Nickel Pellets are produced at our refineries in Copper Cliff and Clydach. Nickel Pellet is a product of the carbonyl refining process. This product’s purity and consistent quality make it suitable for use in the most demanding applications.

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Nickel Discs™:

Nickel Discs™ are produced at the Copper Cliff Nickel Refinery in Sudbury, Ontario, and our Clydach Nickel Refinery in the U.K. The Nickel Disc™ is a product of the carbonyl refining process. This process makes one of purest forms of nickel. The consistent product quality and the distinctive shape (for optimum handle-ability and convey-ability) make Nickel Discs an industry standard for a wide range of melting applications.

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Nickel P-Pellets™:

Nickel P-Pellets™ are screened nickel pellets manufactured through our carbonyl refining processes in Sudbury, Canada, and Clydach, U.K. This product’s purity and consistent quality make it suitable for use in the most demanding plating applications.

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Nickel S-Pellets™ :

Nickel S-Pellets™ are a high-purity form of sulphur-activated nickel widely used for electroplating. S-Pellets™ are produced by a unique carbonyl gas refining process at the Clydach Nickel Refinery in the U.K.​

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Nickel Plating Chips™:

Nickel Plating Chips™ are a high purity form of nickel specifically designed for electroplating with titanium anode baskets. Nickel Plating Chips are proven and trusted by the world’s leading electroplaters.

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Electrolytic Nickel Rounds

Long Harbour Nickel Melt Rounds:

Electrolytic Nickel Melt Rounds are produced at our refinery in Long Harbour, Newfoundland. Their consistent chemical composition allows them to be used as a primary feed in a variety of furnace types while their distinctive shape makes them perfect for semi- and fully automated operations. In addition, the solid metallic nature of the rounds helps to minimize breakage and dust. ​  

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Nickel Plating Rounds™:

Electrolytic Nickel Plating Rounds™ are designed specifically for electroplating with titanium anode baskets. Their unique shape ensures good solution flow and mixing in both regular and shaped baskets of various mesh sizes. With no sharp edges, they are easy to handle safely and produce minimal metallic residues upon dissolution.

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Nickel Powders

T255™ Nickel Powder:

T255™ is a high-purity nickel pow​der with a fine, three-dimensional filamentary (or chain-like) structure. T255™ is produced at the Clydach Nickel Refinery in the U.K. and it is recognized as an industry standard feed for the production of sintered rechargeable battery electrodes. It is used in numerous other applications as well.​

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T123™ Nickel Powder:

T123™ Nickel Powder from our Copper Cliff refinery in Sudbury and Clydach refinery in the U.K. is composed of discrete, spiky nickel particles. Its unique features make it perfect for powder metallurgy or in catalyst applications.

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Chemical Grade Nickel Powder (CGNP™):

CGNP™ is used primarily as a fine nickel material for dissolving applications. These include precursors for electroplating and batteries. This high-purity nickel, which is non-explosive and non-flammable, is the preferred nickel feed for producing nickel salts such as nickel sulphate, nickel chloride, and nickel sulphate.

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Ferronickel

Onça Puma Ferronickel:

Onça Puma Ferronickel is an irregularly sh​aped iron-nickel metallic shot produced at our operation in Brazil.​

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Tonimet Utility Nickel

Tonimet®:

Tonimet® from our Matsusaka Refinery in Japan, is a nickel briquette designed for use in the production​ stainless steel, alloy steels and nickel alloys.

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Copper

Malleable, recyclable and resistant to corrosion and high temperatures, copper is an extremely important metal for modern industry. ​

Used in:  

Power generation and transmission, wiring and virtually all electronic equipment, such as TVs and cell phones

Copper​

  • Copper is the third-most used metal in the world, after iron and aluminum.​
     
  • There are records of objects made from this metal dating back 10,000 years.​
     
  • 66% of annual copper consumption goes on electrical applications.​
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Salobo Concentrate

Salobo Concentrates are a complex product, with high levels of Copper and Gold. It contains low amounts of deleterious elements.

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Sossego Concentrate

Sossego Concentrates are a clean product, with high liquidity due to its typical spec characteristics, including Cu/S/Fe ratio. It contains low amounts of deleterious elements.

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Voisey’s Bay (VBN) Concentrate

VBN Concentrates are a clean product produced in the North of Canada. It contains low amounts of deleterious elements.

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Sudbury Concentrate

Sudbury concentrates is produced in our Sudbury Operations and are recognized for its PGM rich content. The Concentrate contains Palladium and Platinum and is a very unique concentrate that only a few mines in the world produce.

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Cobalt

This is a transition metal, resistant to high temperatures and important for the production of metallic superalloys. It is essential for industry, hospitals and the energy sector.​

Used in:

Manufacture of tools, medical equipment and batteries.

Used in:

  • Cobalt is present in vitamin B-12 as cyanocobalamin, which helps prevent anemia.

  • ​It is also part of the composition of some pigments and dyes. Cobalt has been detected in Egyptian objects dating back to 3,000 BC. ​

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Electrolytic Cobalt Rounds

Cobalt is an important constituent of alloys with high temperature oxidation, corrosion resistance properties and a critical component of a wide variety of magnetic alloy and hard metals.

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Where we are

Our base metals operations are located in Brazil, in the state of Pará, where we have copper and nickel operations; in Canada, where we have extensive infrastructure to produce, refine and distribute nickel, copper and cobalt; and in Indonesia, where PT Vale produces nickel. ​

We are also present in Japan, at Matsusaka Refinery, which processes nickel, cobalt and inorganic industry chemical products; and in the United Kingdom, where we refine the nickel oxide produced by our mines in Indonesia and Canada​.



For questions regarding our products, please contact VBMsales@vale.com.