The Vindhya Range

• Nickel occurs principally as oxides, sulfides, and silicates in India.
• An important occurrence is a nickeliferous limonite in the overburden of chromite in Sukinda Valley, Jajpur district, Odisha.
• In addition, nickel is found associated with uranium deposits at Jaduguda, Jharkhand and a process is being developed for its recovery.
• Resources are spread over in Singhbhum East district of Jharkhand and Jajpur, Keonjhar&Mayurbhanj districts of Odisha.
• It is found as an oxide in Odisha which has 93% of India’s nickel resources. In Jharkhand, nickel is found along with copper and uranium deposits.
• Nickel is also produced as a by-product of copper mining, as in the Ghatsila area of Jharkhand where nickel occurs in small quantities in the copper.