Reuters reported that FNX Mining Co Inc shipped about 157,000 tonnes of ore to Xstrata Nickel's Sudbury processing facilities by August end, completing its requirements under the temporary off take agreement with the unit of Xstrata Plc.

FNX, which has produced solely from Sudbury, the historic Canadian nickel mining region dominated by Brazil's Vale and Swiss based Xstrata, signed an off take agreement with Xstrata to process FNX's ore earlier this year.

Since the beginning of September FNX has continued mining operations as planned and has been stockpiling the ore mined at its Podolsky and McCreedy West mines for future processing at Vale Inco Limited's, a wholly owned subsidiary of Vale, Sudbury facilities.

FNX said it was notified by Vale Inco, under the terms of its off take agreement with that company, to begin delivery of the stockpiled ore and all future daily production to Vale Inco's Clarabelle Mill.

The company said it plans to resume ore deliveries, suspended on May 31st 2009 due to a maintenance shutdown and labor disruption at Vale Inco's Sudbury operations, to the Clarabelle Mill shortly.

The nickel and copper miner also said development work on the LFD deposit and Podolsky mine continued as planned and remained on schedule.

(Sourced from www.reuters.com)