Goldman sez....https://www.thesudburystar.com/news/local-news/indonesia-bans-nickel-exports-boosting-prices Goldman Sachs said in a note on Sunday it expects London nickel prices to reach $20,000 per tonne in three months due to the ban. Ariyono said the timetable was expedited because of the limited pool of mineable nickel resources. The national proven reserve for nickel is only 698 million tonnes, which can only supply smelting facilities for 7.3 years, he told reporters, adding that Indonesia currently has 11 working smelters with input capacity of 24 million tonnes of ore. It has 25 more smelting facilities in the pipeline. The government had initially said it would ban nickel ore exports from January 2022, according to a rule released in 2017.