Ford takes stake in Indonesia nickel project
The automaker joins PT Vale Indonesia and Zhejiang Huayou Cobalt as investors in a project to make an annual 120,000 tons of nickel chemicals for EV batteries.
The automaker joins PT Vale Indonesia and Zhejiang Huayou Cobalt as investors in a project to make an annual 120,000 tons of nickel chemicals for EV batteries.
The Bucko Lake mine operated from 2009 to 2012.
The company expects a global nickel surplus of more than 250,000 metric tons this year, up from previous estimates of 200,000 tons.
Hedge fund Elliott Associates and market maker Jane Street Global Trading brought the case after LME cancelled $12 billion in trades in 2022.
The project was first explored by INCO, the world's largest nickel producer of the 20th century, acquired by Vale in the 1990s.
Nickel prices in London are heading for a 46% fall this year, the largest slump since the financial crisis in 2008.
The global nickel market had a surplus of 23,900 metric tons in September.
That compares with a surplus of 15,300 metric tons in August 2023.
Nickel is likely to see a surge of buying before and during an annual re-balancing in January of commodity indexes.
Share divestment is a condition required by Indonesia to extend Vale Indonesia's mining permit.
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