The company says it has moved from care and maintenance into a planned maintenance period, the first step in restarting operations.
Vale placed the mine on care and maintenance in March as a precaution due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Production is expected to resume in early July and to reach full capacity by early August.
Vale says it's partnering with a private lab in
There have been no cases of COVID-19 to date at the site.
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