Directorate Change

RNS Number:2364R
Inco Ld
8 February 2002

INCO LIMITED ANNOUNCES NEW MEMBER OF ITS BOARD OF DIRECTORS - CHAVIVA M. HOSEK         



Toronto, February 7, 2002 - Inco Limited announced today that Chaviva M. Hosek
was elected a Director of Inco Limited at the February 5, 2002 meeting of Inco's
Board of Directors.

Mrs. Hosek is currently President and Chief Executive Officer of the Canadian
Institute for Advanced Research, a leading not-for-profit organization that
brings together Canada's top thinkers in areas of basic research with
distinguished colleagues around the world. She has held this position since
January 2001. From 1993 until December 2000, Dr. Hosek served as Director of
Policy and Research for the Prime Minister of Canada. Over the 1985 - 1993
period, she held positions in government and private industry, including serving
as Minister of Housing for the Province of Ontario and a partner in Gordon
Capital Corporation, a major Canadian investment banking firm. Dr. Hosek has
also served as President of the National Action Committee on the Status of Women
in Canada and has held senior governance positions at the University of Toronto
and the University of British Columbia.

For further information:

Investor Relations: Sandra Scott       [phone] 
Media Relations:    Steve Mitchell     [phone]

or     www.inco.com



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