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Halmahera mine

mine in Indonesia

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 7, 2026
Entity authorityQ16978113 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Halmahera mine is a large mine in the east of Indonesia in the North Maluku. Halmahera represents one of the largest nickel reserve in Indonesia having estimated reserves of 466 million tonnes of ore grading 1.5% nickel. The 466 million tonnes of ore contains 7 million tonnes of nickel metal.

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The public source identifies “Halmahera mine” as mine in Indonesia. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Halmahera, mine and Indonesia.

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This entry incorporates text from “Halmahera mine” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.