nickel
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Base metals are common, reactive, and often useful in manufacturing, like copper, zinc, nickel, and tin.
From Barron's
Bull’s team spent decades developing batteries using sodium and nickel, which they preferred over iron because that combination can be more densely packed with energy.
For Anglo, there are a number of drivers, including plans to offload its diamonds, met coal and nickel businesses and merge with Teck Resources.
That sample included magnesium, cobalt, nickel, manganese and iron.
From Science Daily
Russia has also mentioned rare-earth mining opportunities near the massive nickel mines of Norilsk and in as many as six other Siberian locations that are still unexploited, these people said.
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