Nickel Mines is a hamlet that is located in Bart Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, United States.

The nickel mines that give the town its name were worked in a deposit of sulfide ore, principally millerite.

Between 1862 and 1893, 4.5 million pounds of nickel were extracted from the site, amounting to as much as twenty-five percent of world production in some years.

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