Brazil’s Santa Rita nickel mine returns to production

One of the world’s largest openpit nickel sulphide mines, Santa Rica in Brazil, is back in production, with Atlantic Nickel on Monday announcing the first sale of nickel concentrate from the mine that it bought in 2018. Atlantic, which is owned by investment advisory firm Appian Capital, restarted blasting activities in July last year, and has now produced more than 11 000 dry metric tonnes.