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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

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