The margins involved on the nickel look as if they may be large enough to make melting worthwhile and a shortage of small change makes life very inconvenient. But regulations such as these don't ...

It's not as if nickel demand has collapsed. The stainless steel sector, which still accounts for the largest share of the metal's usage, performed strongly in 2024. Global melt-shop production ...

Copper and Nickel form a substitutional solid solution over the complete range of possible compositions of the alloy. The equilibrium "phase diagram" opposite shows the dependence of the alloys ...