Nickel ores contain nickel and also iron, magnesium, sulfur, silicon.
There is no statistical number for how much nickel is in the earth. However, scientists believe that nickel is the 2nd most abundant element in the earth's core.
The important minerals of nickel are garnierite, pentlandite, limonite.
Some ores of Nickel are: Pentlandite,Niccolite,Millerite and Garnierite.
Nickel isn't made, it's an element that's refined from ore.
It is a bulk-reducing industry because smelting is extracting the nickel from the ore.
It is a solid found as the ore cobaltite and most abundantly in veins of copper and nickel ore.
Ni(Cu) + energy --> Ni + Cu Really not that difficult.
Nickel is a hard, silvery white metal. It is produced by mining and refining sulphide and oxide ores. Nickel is also recycled from scrap metal The bulk of the nickel mined comes from two types of ore deposits. The first are laterites where the principal ore minerals are nickeliferous limonite
cobalt, nickel, iron ore, copper
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Gangue minerals are the worthless material that surrounds, or is closely mixed with a wanted mineral. - So when you extract Nickel from Nickel Ore you end up with the concentrated Nickel and also the gangue minerals which surrounded it.