These metals, crucial ingredients in electric vehicle batteries, would have come from the nearby Weda Bay Nickel mine, the world’s largest nickel mine, in which Eramet holds a minority stake.

Indonesia is richly endowed with nickel, but refining this crucial mineral poses a daunting environmental challenge Dust and smoke rise from the Indonesia Weda Bay Industrial Park's nickel-mining ...

However, the harmony of tribe and forest has been disturbed by a wave of nickel mining projects. The prized ore is destined for processing at the expansive Indonesia Weda Bay Industrial Park (IWIP ...

It operates the Weda Bay mine in Indonesia with its partner, the Chinese nickel company Tsingshan Holding Group. Earlier this year, Eramet and Germany’s BASF cancelled plans for the joint ...

The Weda Bay nickel mine on Halmahera island -- by some estimates the largest in the world -- has left the Indigenous group encircled, said Syamsul Alam Agus, an advocate at the Association of ...

Indonesian Minister of Industry Agus Gumiwang Kartasasmita has confirmed that Indonesia will begin exporting precursors, a ...

The government's break-neck drive to exploit its nickel deposits should not come at the expense of human rights and the environment.