INDONESIA ORDERS BAUXITE MINING HALT IN BINTAN

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SINGAPORE -The Indonesian central government has ordered miners in the west of Bintan island, one of Indonesia's two main production bases and a major supplier to alumina refineries in China, to halt bauxite mining, sources told MB. "The central government sent a memorandum in the last three or four days," said an official from a Bintan miner. The bauxite mining area in west Bintan normally produces around 800,000 tpm of bauxite in total, he said. Output in the other parts of Bintan, where production is continuing, is estimated at 200,000 tpm, he said.