Falconbridge Ltd.

Falconbridge Limited was a Canadian mining company with headquarters in Toronto. The company operated offices in 18 countries worldwide, which dealt with the exploration, production, processing and marketing of metals and mineral products. Main products of Falconbridge were nickel, copper, cobalt and platinum. In June 2005, the company merged with Noranda Inc., and the Company was continued under the name Falconbridge.

The main mining region of the ores of Falconbridge was around the Sudbury Basin. Other production facilities were located in Ontario (Timmins ), Quebec ( Rouyn -Noranda, Montreal, Nunavik ), New Brunswick ( Bathurst ), as well as in the United States (Tennessee, Missouri), the Dominican Republic, South America (Chile, Peru) and in Norway ( Kristiansand ).

In October 2005, announced the Canadian mining company Inco to want to buy Falconbridge for 12 billion U.S. dollars. After lengthy negotiations, the U.S. company Phelps Dodge was announced on 26 June 2006 to take over both Canadian company for 56 billion U.S. dollars. Winner in Bietstreit but was the end of 2006, the company Xstrata, which could acquire Falconbridge. Xstrata Falconbridge was divided under the name Xstrata Nickel in his group a. Inco, however, was acquired by the Brazilian company Companhia Vale do Rio Doce and trades today after a multiple name changes, as Vale Canada ..