Pak eka apa target FA inco jd berubah dng adanya berita ini? --- obrolan-bandar@yahoogroups.com <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Indonesia's Inco cuts weekly nickel output by 130 T > > Tue Jan 2, 2007 7:07 AM ET > > > JAKARTA, Jan 2 (Reuters) - The Indonesia unit of Canadian nickel producer Inco Ltd <N.TO> said it had cut weekly output by around 130 tonnes (300,000 pounds) as dry weather had caused low reservoir levels at its hydro-electric power plant. > "Production cuts came three to four days earlier than we had predicted ... Rainfall is not sufficient to increase water level(s)," Rajeshnagara Sutedja, Inco's spokesman, told Reuters. > PT International Nickel Indonesia Tbk <INCO.JK> produces between 1,400 and 1,500 tonnes of nickel-in-matte each week. > The company said in mid-December that it might have to cut nickel matte production from Dec. 20 due to low reservoir levels. > "We won't be able to meet original output target. But we have stockpile of unprocessed nickel ore, which will be used to narrow the gap in output," Sutedja said. > PT Inco, which is owned by Brazil's Companhia Vale do Rio Doce <VALE5.SA><RIO.N> through Canada's Inco Ltd, had initially set a production target for 2006 of about 71,000 tonnes of nickel-in-matte. > The company said it was not possible to estimate the likely impact of the unusually dry weather on 2007 production. > Nickel-in-matte is an intermediate smelter product that must be further refined to make pure metal. > London Metal Exchange three-months nickel <MNI3> hit a new high of $34,950 per tonne on Dec. 15, and was quoted around $33,350 on Tuesday. > (Reporting by Fitri Wulandari, editing by Bernard Halloran; Reuters Messaging:[EMAIL PROTECTED];Tel +6221 3846364)
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