Nickel

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Indonesia sets 2025 nickel ore mining quota at around 200 million tonnes

Reuters | January 10, 2025

Indonesia has set a quota of around 200 million metric tons for nickel ore mining this year, a senior mining ministry official said on Friday, adding this could be cut if miners failed to comply with environmental and other rules.


“We have issued around 200 million tons. But if based on their performance evaluation, especially post-mining reclamation and environmental management (not meeting government requirements), we will cut,” said Tri Winarno, director general of mineral and coal at the ministry.

Energy and Mineral Resources Minister Bahlil Lahadalia said last week that the Southeast Asian country, one of the world’s biggest producers of nickel products, was reviewing its annual nickel ore mining quota, seeking to prevent further price falls.

The country’s nickel ore output last year was 215 million tons, Tri said.

The government said in November it might punish violations of environmental and other regulations by cutting quotas.

Indonesia last year approved annual nickel ore mining quotas of 240 million metric tons each year until 2026. Bloomberg News reported in December that authorities were considering cutting the quota to 150 million tons to support prices.

https://www.mining.com/web/indonesia-se ... on-tonnes/

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Indonésie : un producteur de nickel va investir 1,8 milliard de dollars dans une usine de raffinage

AFP le 26 février 2025

Un producteur indonésien de nickel va investir 1,8 milliard de dollars dans la construction d'une usine alors que la première économie d'Asie du Sud-Est cherche à valoriser sa production de minerais et métaux.

Plus grandes réserves mondiales de nickel

La société PT Merdeka Battery Materials a annoncé cette semaine avoir signé des accords pour la construction d'une usine pour extraire et traiter le nickel et le cobalt sur l'île de Sulawesi (Célèbes).

L'Indonésie détient les plus grandes réserves mondiales de nickel mais ne possède que des activités industrielles limitées dans le processus de raffinage, ce que le gouvernement tente de faire évoluer.

Financée par un prêt de 1,4 milliard de dollars US (1,33 milliard d'euros), la construction de l'usine débutera en janvier prochain et doit durer 18 mois. L'usine sera construite dans le parc industriel de Morowali, l'un des plus grands centres de production de nickel d'Asie du Sud-Est.

Investissements massifs de la Chine

En 2023, des centaines de travailleurs indonésiens avaient manifesté contre les conditions de travail dans une usine de transformation de nickel financée par la Chine, située dans le même parc industriel, après une explosion qui avait fait 18 morts.

La Chine investit massivement dans cette région riche en nickel, un métal de base utilisé dans les batteries des véhicules électriques et dans l'acier inoxydable.

L'exploitation du nickel est associée à la déforestation, selon des mouvements de protection de la nature et à des violations des droits de certaines communautés autochtones qui voient leur territoire ancestral amputé.

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la dernière publication sur le Nickel de l' USGS. https://pubs.usgs.gov/periodicals/mcs20 ... nickel.pdf


Data in metric tons of contained nickel



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1.8 milliards de dollars pour une nouvelle usine de raffinage de Nickel en Indonésie :

Merdeka Battery gets $1.4 billion loan for new nickel plant

Bloomberg News | February 25, 2025

Nickel producer PT Merdeka Battery Materials has obtained a $1.4 billion loan to fund the construction of a plant located on Sulawesi island, according to a company statement.


Bangkok Bank PCL, PT Bank Permata, PT Bank Mandiri, PT Bank Negara Indonesia and PT Bank Rakyat Indonesia provided the seven-year senior secured and non-recourse loan, according to the statement.

PT Sulawesi Nickel Cobalt is the borrower of the facility, the proceeds of which will finance the construction of a high-pressure acid leach plant located within the Indonesia Morowali Industrial Park, the statement showed. Such processing plants will produce nickel or cobalt chemicals used for EV batteries.

The construction of the plant comes at a time when the nickel industry is grappling with weak prices and tight supply of ores in Indonesia. The Southeast Asian country now accounts for more than half of world’s nickel output and has been aggressively wooing investment for its domestic processing industry.

A subsidiary of China’s Zhejiang Huayou Cobalt Co. will manage the construction of the new HPAL plant, according to the statement. The project has a total investment of approximately $1.8 billion, with a construction time of 18 months starting January. It will have an annual capacity of 90,000 tons a year.

Merdeka Battery indirectly owns stakes in Sulawesi Nickel Cobalt via its subsidiary PT Merdeka Energi Baru, which controls 50.1% in the nickel firm, according to the statement.

https://www.mining.com/web/merdeka-batt ... kel-plant/

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Prospect de Nickel au Canada :

First Atlantic Nickel shares soar on new discovery

Staff Writer | February 27, 2025


The Atlantic nickel project is located 40 km from Grand Falls-Windsor, Newfoundland. Credit: First Atlantic Nickel

First Atlantic Nickel (TSXV: FAN) soared to its highest in over two years after a new high-grade discovery was made at the company’s district-scale project in central Newfoundland.


The drilling occurred at the Super Gulp zone of the Atlantic nickel project, with a total of five holes completed during the initial phase. The first hole returned assays as high as 0.32% nickel and 0.8% chromium, averaging 0.25% nickel and 0.28% chromium over the entire 293.8-metre length.

Shares of the Canadian junior surged 20% at Wednesday’s market close following the results, giving it a market capitalization of C$26.8 million. During the session, the stock hit a new 52-week high of C$0.34, compared to a low of C$0.075.

The discovery hole — located 16 km south of the Atlantic Lake zone and 10 km north of the RPM zone — confirms the continuous awaruite nickel mineralization within the company’s district-scale 30-km trend, First Atlantic said in a news release Wednesday.

The company noted that the Super Gulp hole significantly exceeded the average depth of historical drilling in the Atlantic Lake zone, which had 0.22% nickel over its entire 87.15-metre length.

To test what it believes to be a new major nickel zone within the 30-km trend, First Atlantic is set to begin a second phase of drilling at Super Gulp while it awaits the remaining drill results from Phase 1.

Alongside drilling, the company is also conducting a metallurgical test on the awaruite-style mineralization to quantify the amount of magnetically recoverable nickel and evaluate the project’s suitability for magnetic separation as a commercial processing method.

https://www.mining.com/first-atlantic-n ... discovery/

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Talon Metals shares rise on massive sulphide discovery at Tamarack project

Staff Writer | March 27, 2025

Talon Metals (TSX: TLO) has made a massive sulphide discovery at its Tamarack project in central Minnesota that it says could represent a significant extension to the existing nickel-copper-cobalt resource. Its shares surged on the announcement.


In a press release late Wednesday, the company said it has been infilling the Tamarack resource area as it looks to complete a feasibility study in support project’s environmental permitting process. During this work, the exploration team re-examined and extended a historic drill hole which encountered significant mineralization at a depth of 707.75 metres, drilling 8.25 metres that was logged as 95% sulphide content.

This represents the second significant discovery by Talon’s team in the space of five months. In October, the battery metals explorer announced the Boulderdash copper and nickel discovery in the nearby state of Michigan.

Shares of Talon Metals closed Thursday’s trading session 23.5% higher at C$0.10 apiece, for a market capitalization of C$92.6 million ($64.7m).

The new discovery at Tamarack is situated approximately 150 metres below and 50 metres south of the known nickel-copper mineralization within the current resource area, where a drill hole previously intercepted 7.74 metres of massive sulphide assaying 8.01% nickel and 2.87% copper.

The location, as the Talon team points out, is significant, as it could be a laterally extensive area with a lack of drilling, and may even host some of the highest-grade nickel and copper mineralization discovered to date at Tamarack.

Timely discovery
The Canadian miner also cheered the timing of its new discovery, as it comes days after US President Donald Trump signed an executive order to boost domestic production of critical minerals.

“Talon is uniquely positioned to respond – we operate the only integrated geophysics and drilling team in the United States dedicated to finding new sources of domestic nickel, copper and cobalt,”Talon CEO Henri van Rooyen said in a press release.

According to Talon’s chief exploration officer Brian Goldner, the mineralization model for Tamarack is that “the nickel mineralization was draining down through the intrusive system and pooled up at the bottom of the massive sulphide” near the previous intercept.

“This type of pooling is also seen at the world’s most prolific high-grade nickel producer, in Norilsk, Russia, once again showing similarities that Tamarack shares with the global giants,” Goldner added.

Following the discovery, Talon has advanced towards follow-up drilling after an EM survey conducted on the extension of the discovery hole identified a strong off-hole conductor.

The Tamarack project currently hosts a mineral resource of 8.6 million tonnes grading 1.73% nickel and 0.92% copper in the indicated category and 8.5 million tonnes grading 0.83% nickel and 0.55% copper in the inferred category.

https://www.mining.com/talon-metals-sha ... k-project/