The North Konawe mine is a large
mine in the east of
Indonesia in
Sulawesi
Sulawesi (), also known as Celebes (), is an island in Indonesia. One of the four Greater Sunda Islands, and the world's eleventh-largest island, it is situated east of Borneo, west of the Maluku Islands, and south of Mindanao and the Sulu Ar ...
. North Konawe represents one of the largest
nickel reserve in
Indonesia having estimated reserves of 498 million tonnes of ore grading 1.36%
nickel.
The 498 million tonnes of ore contains 6.77 million tonnes of nickel metal.
There are conflicting opinions on this mining business of state-owned mining company
PT Aneka Tambang (Antam). While the Indonesian government, in 2022, considered it a National Vital Object (Obvitnas),
there has been significant resistance by the population against the mining permits from 2007 on.
References
Nickel mines in Indonesia
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