A few months away from a third and final referendum on the independence of New Caledonia, the economic and mining policies of the separatists are in accusation.
In two months, the nickel industry in the northern province of New Caledonia, managed by the separatists, can no longer hide the dramatic situation in which it finds itself.
Armed force in this sector of the pro-independence northern province, the South Pacific Mining Company (SMSP) was placed on May 18 under safeguard proceedings by the Nouméa commercial court.
At the end of April, the Territorial Court of Auditors was already alerting to the impasse of the independentist management of the nickel industry which makes one in five Caledonians work.
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Grande Terre, the main island of the Caledonian archipelago, harbors around a quarter of the world's nickel resources.
"The major problem is that nickel in New Caledonia is not a simple industrial subject, but a political one
," analyzes a specialist in raw materials.
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