Nickel Resources in India and their Exploitation

Abstract

NICKEL is one of the important strategic alloying elements : its consumption has increased considerably after World War II and during the last few years it increased by 6U-70°,,. It is felt that the increase would have been still higher if more nickel was available. The present annual production outside the communist block has well exceeded 400 000 tons and there is every likelihood of further rise in production in the near future as new production centres are being established. The largest single producer of nickel is Canada with the world's richest deposits at Sudbury, Ontario.