Xstrata Nickel Sudbury Operations update

Xstrata Nickel reported that the Company’s Sudbury Operations has reached a tentative agreement for a new Collective Agreement with the United Steelworkers Union Local 2020, which represents Xstrata Nickel’s Sudbury office, clerical and technical employees.

The press release is quoted as saying:

Xstrata Nickel’s Sudbury Operations consist of the Nickel Rim South project, a mill and a smelter. The facilities are spread throughout the 60 kilometre, oval-shaped geological formation known as the Sudbury Basin. Nickel and copper are the primary metals but cobalt and precious metals such as platinum are also produced.

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