Nickel HPAL tailings: the unfolding environmental disaster in Indonesia
Without urgent intervention, tailings from nickel HPALs in Indonesia will hit 1.4 billion tonnes by 2035 — enough to cover the whole of Jakarta 1 metre deep.
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Dominance without depth: the smelting superpower that imports its own metal
A decade into nickel downstreaming, Indonesia’s nickel flows remain opaque. Visibility has been very limited on where it actually goes despite hundreds of studies in this field.
A dual-track approach to mineral-led industrialisation in Indonesia: EVs and batteries lead the headlines, but metallurgical applications are more..
In the next ten years, EV and batteries produced in Indonesia will not consume more than 1% of its current domestic nickel production even if..
Balancing Indonesia’s ambition in nickel downstreaming with a dose of realism
[Jakarta Post Special Issue] The incoming administration's position on nickel downstreaming will likely remain firm, as stated by the President-elect..
0.4% of global battery production capacity: Indonesia’s battery and EV developments are far out of step with its nickel exploitation promise
The Energy Shift Institute (Energy Shift) foresees that this year, Indonesia will hold less than 0.4%of global battery manufacturing capacity. In absolute terms, that capacity is just 10GWh out of the more than 2,800GWh the world has in total, not to mention the global figure is set to double by 203