The Story of Money
How Indonesia cornered the nickel market
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A decade ago, Indonesia produced only 6% of the world’s supply of refined nickel. Now, it has a de facto monopoly on the market. How did it happen? The FT’s Jakarta correspondent A. Anantha Lakshmi and FT’s commodities correspondent Camilla Hodgson examine what propelled this explosive growth and how China helped it happen.
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For further reading:
‘The Opec of nickel’: Indonesia’s control of a critical metal
‘Production first, safety later’: inside the world’s largest nickel site
Western miner Eramet sees no profits in nickel processing without Chinese partners
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