Liberty Mines Inc. (TSX:LBE) announced it has reached permitted production capacity of 1,500 tonnes per day at its Redstone Mill following planned production increases.

As quoted in the press release:

The Company also announced that it has shipped its first batch of nickel concentrate since re-starting operations onMarch 31, 2012.  The shipment, which contained approximately 128,000 kg of 13% grade nickel concentrate, was sent to Xstrata’s smelter in Sudbury this past week.  Under its current off-take agreement, Liberty will ship 100% of its concentrate production to Xstrata through 2013.

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