According to statistics showed that the world's top 10 nickel companies produced 290,800 tons of nickel (including third-party production), down by 5.11% compared to the 4th quarter in 2015; compared to 0.74% a slight declined over the same period last year.

Among them, BHP was the largest increased of 31.58% to 20,000 tons; the largest reduction of Russian, fell 12.42% to 63,600 tons.