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One more reason you don't want to mine nickel

Frik Els | January 26, 2016 | 1:06 pm Base Metals Copper Nickel 

[caption id="attachment_843394" align="aligncenter" width="900"] Slag tapping at Glencore's Sudbury Nickel Smelter. Image: Glencore[/caption] Nickel was the worst performer in a pretty sorry commodities field in 2015. The steelmaking ingredient lost just shy of 42% of its value last year. What makes...

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