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THIS little volume is written in the same way and upon the same linesas its predecessors in the series of Imperial Institute monographs on mineral resources; that is to say, it commences with a brief account of the mode of occurrence and the character of “nickel ores, the metallurgy of nickel, and the uses to which this metal is put industrially, followedby a description of the occurrences of nickel ores within the British Empire, and finally of the foreign sources of supply of this metal. The task is in so far rendered an easy one because the author had at hand thewell-known report of the Royal Ontario Nickel Commission published in 1917, in which the whole subject is most exhaustively dealt with. This great report is, however, too voluminous for the ordinary seeker after general information, and the present monograph fulfils a useful object in presenting the subject matter in a more convenient and more readily accessible form. It should be added that Mr. Rumbold has done his work very well. The section on the applications of nickel, although brief, is tolerably comprehensive, although more attention might perhaps have been givento nickel-plating, which is becoming of very great industrial importance. In other respects the author appears to have covered the ground very thoroughly; he scarcely does full justice to the important part that Norway has played in nickel production in the past, and, to judge by the bibliography attached, does not seem to have consulted the tolerably extensive Norwegian literature on the subject. Upon the whole, it may fairly be said that the work carries out very well the intention of the series,namely, “to give a general account of the occurrences and commercial utilisation of the more important minerals.”
Nickel Ores.
By W. G. Rumbold. (Imperial Institute: Monographs on Mineral Resources, with special reference to the British Empire.) Pp. ix + 81. (London: John Murray, 1923.) 5s. net.
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[Book Reviews]. Nature 112, 756 (1923). https://doi.org/10.1038/112756b0
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