Inco Limited is a Canadian mining and metals company, headquartered in Toronto, Ontario. It is the world's second largest producer of nickel, and its third largest producer outside South Africa and Russia of platinum-group metals. A charter member of the newly expanded 30-stock Dow Jones Industrial Average (October 1, 1928), Inco was replaced by Boeing in 1987.

The International Nickel Company was founded in New Jersey, USA, in 1902 through the merger of Canadian Copper , the Orford Copper Company , the Société Minière Caledonienne , and others. Control was transferred to the International Nickel Company of Canada, Ltd., upon its founding in 1916. The International Nickel Company of Canada, Ltd., first began using the trade name Inco in 1919.

Inco began with the Canadian Copper Company following the discovery of copper deposits in Sudbury, Ontario. Initially, ore was shipped for smelting to a plant in Constable Hook, New Jersey owned by the Orford Copper Company. Processing soon revealed that the ore was also rich in nickel and exploration tests revealed an enormous potential. In 1902 the International Nickel created as a joint venture between Canadian Copper and Orford Copper. In 1916, the International Nickel Company of Canada was incorporated as the operating company in Copper Cliff near Sudbury, and in 1918 the company built a new refinery in Port Colborne, Ontario.

In 1929 the corporation underwent a major expansion by absorbing the British owned Mond Nickel Co. Head office was established in Toronto, Ontario and in 1976, the company’s name was officially changed to Inco Limited.

Currently, Inco has operations in twenty countries around the world including the Goro Nickel project area in New Caledonia and the Voisey's Bay nickel-copper-cobalt deposits in Newfoundland and Labrador

In addition to nickel, Inco produces copper, cobalt, platinum, palladium, rhodium, ruthenium, iridium, gold, and silver.

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