They are coming.......It’s been so big that Indonesia held half...

They are coming.......

It’s been so big that Indonesia held half the global market share in nickel in 2023.

Now the next step is for the country to lean into the entire nickel value chain, Meidy Lengkey, secretary-general of the Indonesia Nickel Mining Association (APNI), told HotCopper’s Sonia Madigan at the Critical Minerals and Energy Investment Conference this week.

Lengkey has come to Australia looking for end products involved in battery production, ranging from stainless steel to lithium – and most crucially, graphite.

“We’re asking how to make a battery,” Ms Lengkey explained. “[In] Indonesia, we don’t have lithium, we don’t have graphite, we only have nickel manganese and cobalt. So when we say how to make a battery cell, we’re looking at graphite.”