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The Smelter Trap: Why Owning the Mine Is Not Enough

Copper smelter fees collapsed to historic lows. Western miners ship raw ore east because domestic smelters cannot afford to run.

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A drought in Sulawesi shakes the world's nickel machine

Water shortages forced smelters at Indonesia's giant Morowali nickel park to cut stainless-steel feedstock output, rattling prices.

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The High Seas Treaty hits 100 ratifications — Magna Bureau

Germany, Canada, Australia, Papua New Guinea, Zimbabwe, Brunei and Samoa pushed the BBNJ treaty past 100 parties at the UN General Assembly — and set up a Janua

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'A miracle crop': Prabowo bets — Magna Bureau

The president called oil palm a 'miracle crop' as Indonesia locks in the world's first B50 biodiesel mandate, ends diesel imports, and moves to monopolize palm exports under the state. Fifty-seven pro

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Rare-earth checks clog Indonesia's — Magna Bureau

About 120 surveyor reports are still pending under September's mandatory rare-earth content checks, the smelter group FINI says. Jakarta's anti-corruption assay is holding up nickel, bauxite and tin s

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The smelter runs dry: 570 workers… — Magna Bureau

El Niño has starved a Sulawesi smelter of hydropower, idling its furnaces. BMS is sending workers home on $84 a month — a parable of the nickel boom's fragility.

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