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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Drusus, post: 689952, member: 6370&quot;]that being an estimate 30%? of the current sources of nickel?...and that is by far not the only large one (although it is certainly by far the largest), I believe there are several in Russia and elsewhere. I call that a large amount of nickel. Then of course you have smaller deposits all over the earth thought to have come about in this way (certainly they did not need to be a large deposit to feed a small amount of coins minted?) </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>ALL nickel on earth existed from the planets formation or made its way here after the earths formation since it requires supernova conditions to form thus the question is when it came here...during the earths formation or from material that came after the formation. From all I have read (and I went through a stage where I read a lot about the elements) there can be no way to tell exactly (good guess from other elements found around the deposit) but I tend to think in earths long history a good bit of meteors chock full of nickel has made its way here being deposited close to the surface unlike nickel during the formation which would have, as I have read, been more prone to coglomerate closer to the core. </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I find the source of the nickel to be far less interesting than what they did with it, that is, miting coins with it long before it was customary to do so.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>also, this is by far not even relatively pure, I believe they said it was just 20% nickel? I wouldnt even call that RELATIVELY pure.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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