With operations, offices, exploration projects and joint ventures spread across five continents, Vale is one of the world's largest mining companies, working with passion to transform natural resources into prosperity and sustainable development.
Vale produces fertilizer inputs in Brazil and Peru and is also developing projects in Canada. The relationship between fertilizer and mining is simple: two of the main inputs for making fertilizers – potash and phosphates – are extracted from the ground through mining processes. Vale also produces nitrogen using a chemical process. Vale is the biggest producer of phosphate and nitrogen agricultural nutrients in Brazil.
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