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The important minerals of nickel are garnierite, pentlandite, limonite.

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Q: What is the name for a nickel ore?
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What is ore of nickel?

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.


What is in nickel ore?

Nickel ores contain nickel and also iron, magnesium, sulfur, silicon.


What is the ore mineral of nickel?

Some ores of Nickel are: Pentlandite,Niccolite,Millerite and Garnierite.


How is nickel made?

Nickel isn't made, it's an element that's refined from ore.


How did nickel get its name?

I don't know the date on this -- medieval I think. But nickel was extractible from an ore that looked a lot like copper ore, which was called Devil's copper, or kupfernickel. Nickel means "devil", as in Old Nick, and the name stuck because of the ore's name.It got its name from an old word that meant old nick witch also meant the devil.


Is nickel smelting bulk gaining?

It is a bulk-reducing industry because smelting is extracting the nickel from the ore.


What is cobalt in its normal phase?

It is a solid found as the ore cobaltite and most abundantly in veins of copper and nickel ore.


What do the substances names nickel and colbalt mean?

Oddly enough, both substances take their names from 18th century German words meaning "demon", or "goblin".In the case of nickel, it was derived from the word Kupfernickel ("copper demon"), which was a name miners gave to a copper-colored ore of nickel, supposedly because, although copper-colored, the ore didn't actually yield any copper."Cobalt" comes from Kobold ("household goblin"), again, a name miners gave to an ore (of silver, cobalt, arsenic, and sulfur, allegedly because out-gassing of arsenic and sulfur from the ore made the miners sick.


What is the chemical equation for separating nickel from nickel ore?

Ni(Cu) + energy --> Ni + Cu Really not that difficult.


What is found in nickel?

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


What are the natural resources of Havana?

cobalt, nickel, iron ore, copper


Where is twenty-five percent of the world's nickel ore mined?

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