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Weda Bay Industrial Park

Weda Bay Industrial Park is a science topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Weda Bay Industrial Park rather than just read about it. In short: The Weda Bay Industrial Park is a nickel mining and industrial park complex in Central Halmahera Regency, North Maluku, Indonesia. The Weda Bay Mine is now among the largest nickel mines in the world.

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Reference excerpt

The Weda Bay Industrial Park is a nickel mining and industrial park complex in Central Halmahera Regency, North Maluku, Indonesia. The Weda Bay Mine is now among the largest nickel mines in the world.

History

Nickel deposits were discovered in the Weda Bay area in Central Halmahera in 1996, and a joint venture between Canada-based Weda Bay Minerals and Antam (10%) was established in 1997. French mining group Eramet acquired the Canadian stake in 2006, and planned to develop the site, but due to low mineral prices the project was put on hold in 2013. In 2017, China's Tsingshan Group signed an agreement, giving it a 57% stake in Weda Bay Minerals, and giving Tsingshan the responsibility to develop mineral processing while Eramet retained its mining operations. Construction of the industrial park began in April 2018, with mining operations commencing in October 2019 and metallurgical production in April 2020. As of 2020, four nickel ferroalloy production lines are active in the industrial park, with undergoing development of a cobalt-nickel refining complex. A nickel sulphate plant is also slated for construction in the park. Eramet signed an agreement with German chemicals company BASF in 2020, to develop a nickel-cobalt refinery. This agreement was terminated by BASF in June 2024.

Workforce The industrial park employed around 11,000 people as of 2020. In early 2022, the park reported that this figure has increased to 28,000 Indonesian and 1,800 foreign workers, rising further to 47,000 total workers by 2024.

Mine The Weda Mine was opened in October 2019 and is now the largest nickel mine in the world, with production from October through December of 2019 of half a million tonnes of nickel ore. It reported sales in 2021 of over 21 Mwt (million wet tonnes) from its mine. The ore is disseminated nickel as fine-grained manganese-nickel silicates in a laterite soil. The nickel is found as garnierite as is associated with the iron minerals limonite, magnitite and goethite, as well as various clay minerals. The complex formed from the lateritic weathering of ultramafic rocks: serpentinite, dunite, and peridotite. The mine is a series of open pits, including the sites at Kao Rahai, Sake River, Sake West, Nuspera and Uni Uni.

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Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Weda Bay Industrial Park

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Example 2 — changing one variable

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Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Weda Bay Industrial Park ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Weda Bay Industrial Park

In research: Weda Bay Industrial Park appears in science research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Weda Bay Industrial Park in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Weda Bay Industrial Park is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics Industrial parks in Indonesia, Metallurgical industry of Indonesia, Nickel mines in Indonesia, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
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