nickel
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In 2025, the HNC site produced about 85,000 tons of contained nickel, roughly 40% more than its 60,000-ton annual nameplate capacity, says Macquarie.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026
Oh yes, that extra nickel is before taxes.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 2, 2026
Between 2012 and 2023, official gold production nearly quadrupled from 13 to 51 tonnes, while the country also boasts veins of iron, diamonds, nickel, manganese, bauxite, copper and coltan.
From Barron's ● Sep. 30, 2026
The metallic Ni observed after a reaction may simply form when nickel oxide is reduced by syngas at high temperatures, rather than representing the species that actually performs the catalysis.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 9, 2026
He hid it inside the hollow nickel he’d made, put the coin in one of his dead-drop locations, and marked the subway station wall with chalk.
From "Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown" by Steve Sheinkin
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At night, Hig and Bangley play poker with stacks of $5,000 bills that they throw around as casually as nickels.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026
“We have to do a better job to find those pennies out there—those pennies, nickels and dimes to save and not turn the lights on until you need to,” he says.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 6, 2026
He also thinks the government savings from not producing pennies will be offset by the need for more nickels, which are worth five cents but cost nearly 14 cents to make.
From BBC ● Oct. 31, 2025
“We don’t take those wooden nickels anymore,” he said.
From Salon ● Oct. 28, 2025
He tucked it into his shirt pocket and sent pennies, nickels, and dimes skidding across the floor as he concentrated on quarters.
From "Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library" by Chris Grabenstein
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“It’s the fastest way to degrade your loyalty and satisfaction among the people who are traveling with you, because they feel like they’re being nickeled and dimed,” Taylor told me.
From Slate ● May 12, 2026
Marina thought there was inadequate medical oversight, and said the program "nickeled and dimed" her for additional services, like physicians' visits, that she thought would be included.
From Salon ● Feb. 1, 2023
“It does seem people feel they are being nickeled and dimed on paperwork,” Mr. Brown said.
From New York Times ● Nov. 13, 2017
Teams this time of year are good enough to survive being nickeled and dimed for a run every couple innings.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 5, 2017
This camera is covered with best quality of fine grain leather, and has nickeled fittings.
From Kodaks and Kodak Supplies 1914 by Canadian Kodak Company
We sat on high stools at the bar while the barman shook the Martinis in a large nickelled shaker.
From "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway
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It was brightly lighted by two nickelled lamps; flowers were fastened against the panelling, and clusters of them stood upon the table, which was covered with a spotless cloth.
From The Protector by Harold Bindloss
It was the bright nickelled handle-bar which had caught his eye.
From The Wolf Patrol A Tale of Baden-Powell's Boy Scouts by John Finnemore
A huge basin full of hot water stood ready under the nickelled faucets.
From Aliens by William McFee
There was suddenly a sharp click, a turn of the nickelled handle, and on mute hinges the safe-door opened.
From The Long Lane's Turning by Hallie Erminie Rives
“Sometimes it feels like the college is nickeling and diming you,” Kantrowitz said.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 25, 2016
Commercial practice in the matter of the composition of nickelling solutions appears to vary a good deal.
From On Laboratory Arts by Richard Threlfall
The treatment in hot baths of alkali and cyanide is the method generally employed in American factories as a preliminary to the nickelling of small brass work for sewing machines, etc.
From On Laboratory Arts by Richard Threlfall
One shining in the freshness of new nickelling; the other an old thing of battered tin, with faded gold letters.
From A Top-Floor Idyl by George Van Schaick
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