| INickel Deposit Geology | The bulk of the nickel mined comes from two types of ore deposits: - laterites where the principal ore minerals are
nickeliferous limonite [(Fe,Ni)O(OH)] and garnierite (a hydrous nickel silicate), or - magmatic sulfide deposits where the principal ore mineral is
pentlandite [(Ni,Fe)9S8
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