RE:RE:RE:RE:RE:RE:RE:RE:RE:RE:RE:RE:Alert!Author: Phoebe Sedgman & Ben Sharples (Bloomberg) Posted: Tuesday , 12 Aug 2014 ...Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono banned raw mineral ore exports in January to boost local processing and has given no signs that the curb will be relaxed as companies start to construct plants across the Asian archipelago. Joko Widodo, the Jakarta governor who was elected last month to succeed Yudhoyono isn’t likely to ease the ban, Briggs, the BNP strategist, said in an interview. Ore stockpiles built up by makers of nickel pig iron in China will be exhausted next quarter, according to Australia & New Zealand Banking Group Ltd., which said Philippine supply won’t be enough to fill the void. Producers in China are running at 59 percent of capacity this month, down from 67 percent in April, according to Beijing Antaike Information Development Co., a state-backed researcher. Nickel pig iron output in China will drop 45 percent to 212,000 tons in 2015, Morgan Stanley says...