IMIP Morowali
The heart of Indonesia's nickel boom, built largely with Chinese capital.
- Material
- Nickel
- Stage
- Processing plant
- Place
- Central Sulawesi, Indonesia
- Operator
- Tsingshan-led industrial park
- Coordinates
- 2.83° S, 122.16° E (approximate)
Seen from orbit
- Heat
- 7 of the last 7 days and 17 of the last 30 had furnace-hot pixels within 6 km (NASA FIRMS).
- Surface temperature
- Landsat, 15 Sep 2026: typical ground 37.6 °C; 86.4 ha more than 8 °C warmer than the land around it; hottest spot 21.2 °C above it.
- Sulphur dioxide
- 18 of 36 days seen in the last 60 read above 2 DU within 50 km; highest 4.48 DU.
- Radar
- Latest Sentinel-1 radar picture: 25 Oct 2026.
Signals show activity, not output. They are measured automatically and can be affected by weather, terrain and fires.
Facts
- About $34.3 billion invested from 2015 to 2024
- About 85,000 workers
- Runs largely on captive coal power, including about 2 GW of coal plant
- Indonesia mined about 2.2 of the world's 3.7 Mt of nickel in 2024 (USGS)