Tsingshan plans nickel smelter in Indonesia powered by renewables
World’s top nickel and stainless steel maker plans to build solar and wind facilities to power a 2,000MW smelter in eastern Indonesia within the next three to five years
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Mining-industry
China turns to innovation as rare earth boom
The high demand for magnetic materials from makers of appliances and electric vehicles has helped drive a multi-faceted recovery for the sector, causing a rise in prices for rare earth – and enabling rare earth companies to undertake more research and development
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Race is on for Indonesia’s untapped rare earths
Indonesia appears to have only modest proven amounts of the v valuable minerals, but much of what it does have is locked away in the rock waste, or tailings, left over from centuries of tin mining on the islands of Bangka and Belitung, south of Singapore.
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