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Vale Receives Approval in Pará State to Resume Mining Expansion Activities at Its Serra Leste Mine

Written by Valdemar Medeiros
Published on 28/11/2020 at 13:38
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Serra leste da vale no Pará
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The Mining Leader Vale Informed That It Received the Installation License Granted by the State Secretary for Environment and Sustainability (Semas) on November 27, Last Friday, for the Resumption of Mining Activities at Its Units in Serra Leste, Pará, Located in the Municipality of Curionópolis

Vale’s operations have been suspended since January of last year, after it reached the limit for iron mining in the area in Pará, which had been licensed until then. Vale confirms this in a statement, and says that maintenance will be carried out in the coming weeks for a safe resumption of actions in December.

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