Indonesia has denied that it will set a quota for coal exports as it wants to reserve the coal for future use.
The reports had prompted rising interest in the country’s natural resources from energy-hungry China and India.
The reports were baseless and the new mining law likely to be passed by Parliament by June would in [...]

Publicly-listed mining company PT Antam Tbk of Indonesia and UC RUSAL of Russia have agreed to jointly develop bauxite deposits in Indonesia.
Antam President Director D. Aditya Sumanagara and UC RUSAL Director for International and Special Projects Alexander Livshits signed a heads of agreement to that effect here on Thursday in front of President Susilo Bambang [...]

Russian aluminum giant United Company RusAl said Monday it was considering establishing a bauxite and alumina processing complex in Indonesia.
Media quoted representatives of Indonesian mining company Antam as saying earlier Monday that there were plans for a joint project with UC RusAl to set up a plant in the southeast Asian country at a cost [...]

Base metals prices paused on Friday as the market took stock after the recent rally, but analysts said copper prices were likely to forge higher on stronger Chinese demand.
However, traders said a Lunar New Year holiday in China next week and the Presidents’ Day holiday in the United States on Monday could curb activity and [...]

Indonesian state-owned miner PT Aneka Tambang Tbk (Antam) said on Thursday its ferro-nickel sales in 2006 nearly doubled from the previous year thanks to higher output.
Antam said in a statement sales of ferro-nickel in 2006 rose 92 percent to 13,389 tonnes from 6,988 in the previous year.
Last year, output of ferro-nickel, a raw material for [...]