Mining companies often miss a simple step to protect the value of their operation through improving the management of their ...

In the Central Mamuju district of Indonesia’s West Sulawesi, where the Budong-Budong River meets the sea, people have long ...

Luc Lachance, Metals and Mining, ION Commodities, Canada, considers the challenges and opportunities facing the global nickel ...

Indonesia’s sprawling nickel industry is ... The plants, hundreds of miles from the nickel mining heartland of Sulawesi, face additional costs to ship in ore. But even facilities near mines ...

Abdul Manan Magtiblo watched the excavator dump a piece of Gebe Island into the back of a truck. Barely a thicket remained on the buzz-cut upland above Umera village as the vehicle drove off to the ...

Mining companies are busy extracting the mineral wealth from seven nickel concessions beneath this 22,400-hectare (55,350-acre) island, which is around half the size of New Orleans. Research by Forest ...

Indonesia is contemplating an increase in the royalties paid by mining companies for commodities such as coal, nickel and copper. This proposal is part of the new government's plan to accommodate ...

The mining expansion must be stopped immediately.” A Tapanuli orangutan in the Batang Toru forest in northern Sumatra, Indonesia. Image by Matt Senior. Jardines said Agincourt had already ...

A Congolese ministerial committee recommended measures to bolster a temporary ban on cobalt exports, including working with Indonesia, the No. 2 supplier of the battery metal. The Democratic Republic ...

For decades, the nation’s extractive industries have been plagued by issues such as corruption and regulatory inconsistency, as well as unfair profit-sharing mechanisms with local governments.