Vale Canada

Vale Canada Limited

Company type	Wholly owned subsidiary
Industry	Mining
Founded	1902
Headquarters	Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Products	Nickel, Copper, Cobalt, PGMs
Revenue	US$ 8.3 billion (2012)
Net income	US$ 3.8 Billion (2012)
Number of employees	12,000
Parent	Vale
Subsidiaries	PT Vale Indonesia (34%)
Website	nickel.vale.com

Vale Canada Limited (formerly Vale Inco, CVRD Inco and Inco Limited; for corporate branding purposes simply known as "Vale" and pronounced /ˈvɑːleɪ/ in English)^[1] is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Brazilian mining company Vale. Vale's nickel mining and metals division is headquartered in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It produces nickel, copper, cobalt, platinum, rhodium, ruthenium, iridium, gold, and silver. Prior to being purchased by CVRD (now Vale) in 2006, Inco was the world's second largest producer of nickel, and the third largest mining company outside South Africa and Russia of platinum group metals. It was also a charter member of the 30-stock Dow Jones Industrial Average formed on October 1, 1928.