Russia's Norilsk Nickel (otc: NILSY) is the world's biggest producer of nickel, which is what makes stainless steel shiny.
Taxes from Norilsk Nickel's mines provide nearly 70% of the regional administration's income.
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There ought to be at least a nickel's width of clearance between the whirring blades and the bottom or sides of the blender jar.
Norilsk Nickel is the world's largest nickel and palladium miner.
Four times the area of France, and source of a fifth of the world's nickel and two-fifths of its platinum, Russia's entire Krasnoyarsk krai, or region, has only about as many inhabitants as Boston and despite their land's vast natural wealth, they are as poor as church mice.
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New Caledonia produces 30 percent of the world's nickel, with major producers SLN, Inco, Phelps Dodge and Falconridge all operating there.
It turned out that Mehrban's nickel expert, Mohammed A. Al-Bayati, is a former University of California, Davis researcher with barely any background in nickel.
Many French horns, for example, are made of nickel silver, an alloy of copper, zinc, and nickel (it's silver in name and color only), and some are made of nickel bronze, an alloy of copper, tin, and nickel. (Brass itself is an alloy of copper and zinc.) Many brass instruments are silver-plated (sterling silver on brass), and some are gold-plated.
BYD, for example, is the world's largest maker of nickel-cadmium batteries, and India's Reliance Group makes more polyester fibre and yarn than anyone else.
And it recently signed a contract with China's biggest nickel producer, Jinchuan Nonferrous Metals.
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In his workshop he said he's using nickel silver and ceramics as raw materials for the altar.
Hit by low prices for sugar and nickel, Cuba's main products, the country's overall exports fell by 11% while imports grew by 6%.
This was the case with the Cree over the massive James Bay hydroelectric dams in northern Quebec, the Innu over the Voisey's Bay nickel mine in Labrador, the Inuit over diamond mines in the Northwest Territories, and the 1999 creation of the new territory of Nunavut, the largest land-claim settlement in Canadian history.
The Play's durable, nickel-plated clip securely fastens to a belt, pocket, bra or purse.
The nickel passed to Walton's sister, Melva Givens, after experts said the odd date on the coin suggested it was a fake.
The price of nickel, once Cuba's leading export earner, has slumped.
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By contrast, the nickel battery in today's Prius holds only 1.7kwh.
But Norilsk Nickel, with the world's largest reserves of the metal, treads in the shadow of rumors that the government is plotting to target it as it did Mikhail Khodorkovsky's oil company Yukos.
In the ancient oceans, green rust's ability to pull nickel out of the water would have been critical for some life forms, since nickel is an important nutrient for microbes that produce methane.
Unlike other metals where production has been taken offline, there's no idle capacity in the nickel industry.
Toyota and its battery suppliers have a head start on the nickel metal hydride batteries used in today's hybrids.
Johnson Controls is positioning itself to be a technology leader in hybrid car batteries as the industry shifts to lithium ion batteries from nickel metal hydride batteries used in today's hybrids.
Putting the bundle into the first fare screen rather than throwing add-on fees at customers after they select a price is American's attempt to ease the "nickel and diming" effect, Mr. Elieson said.
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Since then, the nickel has been on display at the association's Money Museum in Colorado.
Experts on London's commodity exchanges claim that so much Russian nickel, aluminum and copper is being dumped on the market that world prices are depressed.
Born in Chicago, he bought into penny mining stocks and pitched them on the Vancouver Stock Exchange--until prospectors of his Diamond Fields Resources looking for diamonds in Voisey's Bay, Newfoundland happened upon a vast nickel deposit.
Uneximbank had benefited from the loans-for-shares scheme to acquire, for next to nothing, Russia's fourth-biggest oil firm and its biggest nickel producer.
The reefs, the second biggest system in the world after Australia's Great Barrier Reef, are under threat from nickel mining on New Caledonia, Green groups say.
Beijing Olympic gold medalist LaShawn Merritt won the men's 400 in 44:32, and Jamaican Nickel Ashmeade ran the 200 in 20:14 to best Walter Dix in 20:16.
Critical to the stainless steel industry, nickel is seeing strong demand from China and the U.S. MacMillan notes that this demand is in part due to America's shortage of stainless steel scrap.
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