Cerro Matoso Nickel Mine | nickel mine/processing

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Cerro Matoso, located near the town of Montelíbano in northern Colombia, combines a lateritic nickel ore deposit with a low cost ferronickel smelter. It is the world's second largest producer of ferronickel and a nickel industry leader in unit cost of production.

The ferronickel smelter and refinery are integrated with an open-cut mine. The Beneficiation plant for the mine consists of a primary and secondary crusher, which is sent to a stacker for stockpiling and blending. Process design capacity is 50,000 tonnes per year of nickel, in the form of ferronickel.

There are potential problems with the stability of the tailing dam and the Columbian Environmental Department is not allowing further expansion of the mine.

2015 the workers ended a two week strike.