Xstrata Nickel reported that the Company's Sudbury Operations has reached a tentative agreement for a new Collective Agreement with the Canadian Auto Workers Sudbury Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers Union Local 598, which represents Xstrata Nickel's Sudbury production and maintenance employees.

The press release is quoted as saying:

Xstrata is a global diversified mining group, listed on the London and Swiss Stock Exchanges, with its headquarters in Zug, Switzerland. Xstrata's businesses maintain a meaningful position in seven major international commodity markets: copper, coking coal, thermal coal, ferrochrome, nickel, vanadium and zinc, with a growing platinum group metals business, additional exposures to gold, cobalt, lead and silver, recycling facilities and a suite of global technology products, many of which are industry leaders. The Group's operations and projects span 19 countries.

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