JAKARTA: Global nickel prices and mining shares rallied a day after Indonesia banned unprocessed mineral exports, as the South-East Asian nation pledged to introduce a progressive export tax to encourage domestic smelting for a range of ores.
Indonesia introduced the controversial ban on Sunday on a range of raw mineral ores in order to force home companies to build processing plants, but policy uncertainty remains.
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