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6. Nickel marketing
Depending on the ores processed and the processes used, nickel metallurgy leads to the marketing of four major families of finished products, directly usable by consumers without further refining. These are :
nickel metal ;
ferronickels ;
metallurgical oxides and their by-products;
nickel salts and chemical oxides.
In addition to sales of raw ores, two intermediate products give rise to commercial transactions:
nickel and cobalt sulfide concentrates ;
mattes.
Japan, which has no mining resources of its own, buys raw nickel ore from New Caledonia,...
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Nickel marketing
Economic data
1.Nickel production
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Mining production
Table 1 shows the worldwide distribution in 2004.
Producers
1.Main nickel metal producers
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