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Brazil & Southern Cone - August 2006 (ISSN 1741-4431)
BRAZIL: CVRD on the march
Companhia Vale do Rio Doce (CVRD), Brazil's biggest mining company, has set its eyes on some ambitious foreign targets. Already the world's largest iron ore producer, CVRD has ambitions to be one of the, if not the, biggest mining companies on earth.
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