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Nickel

Brief description

Nickel has been used as coinage metal for several thousand years without knowledge of the metal itself.

During copper ore mining in the Middle Ages it was just considred to be a waste by-product. It was not before 1751 when the Swedish mining engineer Lord Axel Fredrik Cronstedt succeeded in extracting nickel as an individual element from nickel ore.

Larger mining areas of nickel ores are to be found in Canada, Russia, Australia, and Cuba (estimates range from 70 - 170 million tons).

Nickel is a silvery-white metal that features good workability and electrical conductivity.

Nickel strips and their applications

as additional layer for thermostatic bimetals to achieve a determined electric resistance
as an additional layer for 1 and 2 Euro-coins to combat the use of counterfeit coinage in coin-operated vending machines
as cladding material for various coins
as soldering tag for batteries and accumulators
as pole piece for batteries
in various stamped and bent parts for the automotive industry (e.g. dimming flaps in headlamps)
as electrolytic anodes for the electroplating industry
as connection pins for steam irons
as outside caps for transistors

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