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Meet the new boss of CVRD Inco.(SPECIAL REPORT: MINING)(Companhia Vale do Rio Doce)(Parviz Farsangi)

Northern Ontario Business, December, 2007 by Ross, Ian

CVRD Inco's new face of Sudbury mining is really an old hand from across town.

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Parviz Farsangi, the former manager of Falcon-bridge's (now Xstrata Nickel) Sudbury mines and mill business is now the new Chief Operating Officer of CVRD INCO.

He replaces Mark Cutifani who left last month to become CEO of AngloGold Ashanti in South Africa.

Farsangi returns from a two-year stint in Louisiana as president and general manager of Gramercy Alumina, an aluminium refinery near New Orleans.

He now oversees all of CVRD's wholly-owned subsidiaries including Canadian operations in Thompson, Man., Voisey's Bay and two plants in the United Kingdom.

These are exciting and prosperous times to come back with as...

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