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60°N 30°N 0° 30°S 60°S A
km C 0° Isabela Island Goro 30°S C New Caledonia

1 000 New Caledonia Tiébaghi Koniambo Philippines Indonesia 150°E
Papua New Guinea PNG Australia

150°E Ramu Greenvale 150°E 120°E

Cycloops Australia Myanmar

Philippines Casiguran Pujada Murrin Murrin Bulong India 90°E

Acoje/Zambales Mindoro Weda Bay Soroako Indonesia Russia Madagascar 60°E

120°E Berong Cawse 120°E Ethiopia Burundi
0° 30°S Greece 30°E
Ni Laterite type deposits Hydrous Mg-Ni silicate 60°W 60°W 60°W Oxide Clay Loma de Hierro 60°W 0° Ivory Coast Cameroon 0° Figure 1. (A) Global resource of Ni metal contained in laterite type deposits by country (after Berger et al., 2011). The intertropical zone, where most of the deposits are located, is highlighted. Orange dashed areas represent the envelope of the world’s main lateritic zones (after Tardy, 1993). Weathering profiles being highl

Ac ve subduc on zones Marginal basins Cuba Nicaro Moa Falcondo Dominican Republic Cerro Matoso Venezuela Colombia 30°W 60°W Cuba Brazil 30°W 60°W

San Felipe Camaguey Punta Gorda 90°W

Baja Verapaz B New Caledonia Philippines

90°W 90°W USA Resources Indonesia and deposit types. PNG—Papua New Guinea.
Guatemala km Mt Ni metal contained 10 - 20 20 - 30 Age of the weathering Miocene to Present Cretaceous to Paleocene Cuba

1 000 150°W 150°W 150°W < 10 Mesozoic Rest of the world Australia Brazil

B 30°N 0°

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