Indonesia Bauxite News
News, analysis and current information on Bauxite in Indonesia for investors and industry professionals.
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Indonesia's Mineral Downstreaming: The Processing Capacity Being Built, Commodity by Commodity
Indonesia's downstreaming roadmap runs to 2045; the plant on the ground is narrower and countable. ESDM's own count as of 2024 is 131 nickel smelters at some stage of delivery demanding 438.3 million tonnes of ore a year, three world-class copper smelters heading for about 1 million tonnes of cathode capacity, eight alumina refineries and aluminium smelters still under construction, and a copper fleet expected to yield lead as a by-product. This is the capacity, commodity by commodity, and the ore arithmetic under it.
Indonesia's Mineral Export Ban: What the Nickel and Bauxite Prohibitions Actually Produced
Indonesia prohibited exports of unprocessed minerals from January 2014, then applied the ban commodity by commodity: nickel ore from 1 January 2020, bauxite from June 2023, copper concentrate exempted to May 2024. USGS records the result — ferronickel exports at US$15 billion and intermediate nickel products near US$7 billion by 2023, bauxite export value down to US$68 million, and a surplus market that cut the nickel price 11 percent in 2025.
Bauxite Mining in Indonesia: What the 2023 Export Ban Changed
Indonesia stopped exporting bauxite ore on 10 June 2023 and the ban is still standing. USGS reported the same year's output as 32 million tons, then 9.9 million tons. Here is the regulation as written, the production record edition by edition, the refineries built to absorb the ore, and what the sources do and do not say.
Indonesia Mining Companies: the State Holding, Its Members and the Foreign Operators
USGS lists five companies inside MIND ID, the state mining holding, while MIND ID's own site now shows six members holding stakes from 34% to 100%. Here is who owns what, what each company produces, and how the foreign-owned operators fit alongside them.
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