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Indonesia’s nickel strategy proved to be a ‘great success’—but overcapacity and tech shifts could challenge Jakarta’s ‘downstreaming’ hopes
Indonesia’s nickel strategy has been a “great success,” five years since it shocked the metals world by banning exports of raw nickel ore. The Southeast Asian country has the world’s ...
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Indonesia’s nickel boom is forcing its own smelters to shut down
INDONESIA’S sprawling nickel industry is creaking under the weight of its own success, as a production surge drags down prices and a shortage of ore forces even the country’s own smelters to curb ...
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Sludge collapse kills 1 at a Chinese-funded nickel plant in Indonesia
PALU, Indonesia — One person is dead and two are missing after a nickel waste disposal site collapsed on Indonesia’s Sulawesi Island, officials said Wednesday. It was the latest deadly ...
1 dead, 2 missing in sludge collapse at Chinese-fund nickel plant in Indonesia
Officials say one person is dead and two are missing after a nickel waste disposal site collapsed on Indonesia’s Sulawesi Island ...
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Just because Indonesia has nickel doesn’t mean it should make EVs
For one commodity, however, the arm-twisting has worked. Indonesia has the world’s largest reserves of nickel, a crucial ingredient in certain electric-vehicle (EV) batteries. Since 2020 ...
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Sludge collapse kills 1 at a Chinese-funded nickel plant in Indonesia
Nickel is a key component of batteries for electric vehicles. In December 2023, about 21 workers, including eight Chinese , died when the furnace at PT Indonesia Tsingshan Steel exploded while ...