kok beritanya 1 bulan yang lalu?? Sekarang, harga nikel kayaknya ndak terpengaruh dengan tutupnya smelter inI..
Salam, ND On 7/14/08, Richard Rahardjo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > BHP to Shut Nickel Furnace for Revamp Ahead of Plans (Update3) > > By Rebecca Keenan > > June 12 (Bloomberg) -- BHP Billiton > Ltd.<http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/quote?ticker=BSL%3AAU>, > the world's largest mining company, will shutdown a nickel smelter and > refinery in Western Australia for four months, limiting supply and sending > prices of the metal higher. > > An earlier-than-planned rebuild of the Kalgoorlie smelter furnace will > reduce nickel sales by a total of 28,000 metric tons, the Melbourne-based > company said today in a statement. The Kwinana refinery, the world's > third-largest producer of the refined metal, will be shutdown during the > rebuild, the company said. > > ``It's about 2 percent of global nickel supply and that's a fair amount,'' > Mark > Pervan<http://search.bloomberg.com/search?q=Mark+Pervan&site=wnews&client=wnews&proxystylesheet=wnews&output=xml_no_dtd&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&filter=p&getfields=wnnis&sort=date:D:S:d1>, > senior commodity strategist at Australia and New Zealand Banking Group Ltd., > said today by phone from Melbourne. ``It would put a nice floor under the > nickel price. It won't be huge but it could get back towards *$30,000 *a > ton.'' > > Nickel in London rose as much as 6 percent today to $24.585, extending > gains this month on concern power disruptions in Western Australia and > declining stockpiles will crimp supply. Nickel usage will climb to a record > this year as output of stainless steel recovers, the International Nickel > Study Group said in April. > > BHP fell <http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/quote?ticker=BHP%3AAU> A$1.64, or > 3.8 percent, to A$41.80 at the 4:10 p.m. Sydney time close on the Australian > stock exchange. The stock has risen 4.1 percent this year, while the > benchmark index has declined 16 percent. > > Australian Cuts > > Minara Resources Ltd.<http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/quote?ticker=BHP%3AAU>, > Australia's second-largest nickel producer, cut output forecasts this week > after a fire at a natural gas plant slashed supplies of the fuel in Western > Australia by 30 percent. Annual nickel production may fall by as much as 23 > percent, Minara said. BHP also was affected by the outage and natural gas > used at Kalgoorlie will be reallocated to the Worsley alumina refinery, the > company said today. > > BHP stands to gain <http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/quote?ticker=BHP%3AAU>the > most from any increase in the nickel price, compared with Anglo American > Plc, Cia. Vale do Rio Doce and Rio Tinto Group, according to an April report > by ING Bank NV. BHP's profit increases by $50 million for every 25 cent per > pound gain in the nickel price, it said. Xstrata's profit would rise by $35 > million, it said. > > BHP's stainless steel division, which includes the nickel business, was > BHP's biggest unit by sales last year, with earnings before interest and tax > tripling to $3.7 billion. BHP produced 186,300 tons of nickel in the year > ending June 30, 2007. > > Nickel Mines > > The Kalgoorlie smelter processes ore from BHP's Kambalda and Leinster > nickel mines in Western Australia. Once smelted the product is railed to the > Kwinana refinery and then onto the Port of Fremantle for export. > > The Kalgoorlie smelter normally produces about 100,000 tons of > nickel-in-matte a year, the company said. It supplies the Kwinana refinery > and international customers. > > BHP also buys ore from nearby nickel producers, including Mincor Resources > NL, and processes the ore at the smelter. BHP is planning to stockpile > nickel concentrate at the smelter, though the company hasn't given a ``a > definitive guarantee everything will continue on business as usual,'' Mincor > said today in a statement. > > ``We will continue all reasonable endeavors to maintain purchases,'' Emma > Meade<http://search.bloomberg.com/search?q=Emma+Meade&site=wnews&client=wnews&proxystylesheet=wnews&output=xml_no_dtd&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&filter=p&getfields=wnnis&sort=date:D:S:d1>, > a spokeswoman for BHP, said by phone. > > To contact the reporter on this story: Rebecca > Keenan<http://search.bloomberg.com/search?q=Rebecca+Keenan&site=wnews&client=wnews&proxystylesheet=wnews&output=xml_no_dtd&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&filter=p&getfields=wnnis&sort=date:D:S:d1>in > Melbourne at > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > *Last Updated: **June 12, 2008** **03:10 EDT* > > > >
