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Since the beginning of the disaster in New Caledonia, metallurgical factories and mining facilities have been slowing down, and even under no circumstances. One extra blow to the implications “catastrophic” for a nickel trade already in nice issue.

If, when it comes to safety, the state of affairs has clearly improved within the archipelago, the place round 3,500 troopers, gendarmes and police will finally be deployed, mining and metallurgical exercise has been at a standstill since May 13 and the start of the violent protest in opposition to the reform of the electoral physique.

At the doorway to Nouméa, the pyrometallurgical manufacturing facility of Société Le Nickel (SLN) was even on the forefront of the clashes between rioters and the police which came about a couple of hundred meters from the positioning, categorized ICPE (Classified Installations for environmental safety).

Scattered throughout the archipelago, its 5 mining facilities are at a standstill and the manufacturing facility's ore reserves are reducing, posing a danger to the economic device. To be stored in working order, excessive temperature ovens have to be powered repeatedly. Gold “we ride on the reserve”an inner supply advised Agence France-Presse (AFP), confirming the priority of the unions who known as final week for the lifting of blockades on mining websites.

SLN, a historic nickel mining firm in New Caledonia launched on the finish of the nineteenth century^e century, has additionally been the goal of a number of intrusions and destruction on its websites in Thio and Kouaoua, on the east coast of Grande-Terre.

In the south of New Caledonia, the Prony Resources manufacturing facility, in search of a purchaser, additionally owed the upkeep of its exercise to a State mortgage of 140 million euros in March, which ensures its survival till March 2025. However, the positioning has been fully shut down for the reason that begin of the riots, the corporate confirmed to AFP.

Finally, the Koniambo Nickel (KNS) manufacturing facility, within the north of the island, has been dormant since February following the choice of the Anglo-Swiss group Glencore, 49% shareholder, which needs to promote its shares after having accrued the losses.