Indonesia Charts Own Path to Dominate Nickel Supply
Indonesia has been a major player in the global mining industry for quite a while. Since 2006, mining has contributed to an increasingly larger share of Indonesia’s GDP, thanks to significant exports of copper, coal, nickel, gold, bauxite and tin. Indonesia accounted for close to 20% of global nickel exports before its government imposed a ban on the sale of unprocessed nickel ore. In 2021, however, the country was responsible for 37% of the world’s total production of nickel and earned $20.9 billion from the export of nickel-based products. The ban on nickel ore exports was preceded by strong nationalistic…