Rio Tinto expects to begin infrastructure work on the massive Simandou iron ore project in Guinea this year following almost three decades of setbacks and scandals.
The Baptiste nickel project is located in central British Columbia and is being developed by FPXNickel, a nickel mining company based in Vancouver, Canada.
Meidy Katrin Lengkey, Secretary General (Sekum) of the Indonesian Nickel Miners Association (APNI), estimates that Indonesia will control 85% of the world's nickel production by 2033.