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Could I have your view on Noranda Income Fund? Thank you.

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Noranda Income Fund, $5.67, symbol NIF.UN on Toronto (Units outstanding: 50.0 million; Market cap: $283.5 million; www.norandaincomefund.com), was created in 2002 to buy the CEZinc processing facility and some assets that belonged to Noranda Inc. Falconbridge bought Noranda in 2005. Switzerland-based Xstrata plc then bought Falconbridge. Xstrata Canada holds a 25% interest in Noranda Income Fund. The fund first sold units to the public for $10 each and began trading on Toronto in May 2002. The fund’s CEZinc processing facility, located in Salaberry-de-Valleyfield, Quebec, is the second-largest zinc-processing facility in North America and the largest in eastern North America, where most of its customers are located. The fund has a contract with Xstrata Canada to supply the plant with zinc concentrate until 2017. Most of the plant’s supply comes from Xstrata’s Brunswick, Antamina, Perseverance and Kidd Creek mines, as well as Teck Resources’ Duck Pond mine. Companies pay the fund a fee to refine the zinc. The plant produces zinc slab, as well as…