Leakage at nickel furnace not affecting production: Inco

IDX-listed nickel miner PT International Nickel Indonesia Tbk (Inco) has confirmed that a leakage occurred in one of the company?s furnaces, Unit Four, in Sorowako, South Sulawesi.

But the company?s spokesman Jannus TH Siahaan said in Jakarta on Tuesday that the leakage in the electric furnace which occurred at about 10 p.m. on Monday would not affect production activities.

?There was no explosion at the furnace. Everything has been under control,? he said, adding that the company was still investigating the cause of the leakage.

The company?s processing plant in Sorowoko has a processing capacity of 150 million tons of nickel ore a year. Inco?s production of nickel in matte in the first semester of this year was down to 32,500 metric tons from 35,250 in the same period of last year. (*)