By REUTERS
February 17, 2016
The Brazilian company Vale, the world’s biggest iron ore producer, said on Wednesday that it had begun testing equipment at its largest mine, in the Brazilian Amazon. Tests began with a nearly six-mile-long conveyor belt that takes iron ore from the mine’s open-cut pit to a processing facility, said Jamil Sebe, project director for the company’s Amazon iron assets. The mine has a planned capacity to produce 90 million metric tons of high-grade ore a year.