Merdeka Battery to build nickel processing plant


The facility will have an annual production capacity of 90,000 tonnes of mixed hydroxide precipitate. — The Jakarta Post

Jakarta: PT Merdeka Battery Materials Tbk (MBM), the nickel processing unit of miner PT Merdeka Copper Gold Tbk, has signed an agreement to build a high-pressure acid leach (HPAL) plant with an investment value of around US$1.8bil, according to a statement.

The facility, to be developed at Indonesia Morowali Industrial Park in Central Sulawesi and operated by PT Sulawesi Nickel Cobalt (SLNC), will have an annual production capacity of 90,000 tonnes of mixed hydroxide precipitate (MHP).

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