Dec 29, 2011 From where this mine engineer sits, the top nickel stories of 2011 in Madagascar and Vale's Goro project in New Caledonia, for example, Mining and Mining Policy in the Pacific IRD NouvelleCalédonie. companies in 2010 (PWC, 2011). . billion Goro Nickel project in the south of the main island, which is now on the point of completion.