Abstract:Import amount of laterite nickel deposit is huge, and components are very complex with large differences. In order to know main components of imported laterite nickel deposit comprehensively, taking imported amounts of Rizhao port as the main factors, and amounts of Lianyungang port and Tianjin port as supplemented factors, from January to December in 2013, according to the amount of monthly arrival, 11~25 samples will be selected every month. Thus, 228 samples have been selected in total. Through comprehensive analysis of major elements, detection rate of 19 kinds of elements are more than 35%, they are nickel, iron, oxygen, silicon, magnesium, aluminum, chromium, manganese, cobalt, zinc, calcium, chloride, sodium, potassium, sulfur, vanadium, titanium, copper, phosphorus, etc. Among them, the former 10 kinds of elements have been detected totally, and the elements which content are higher than 1% are only oxygen and iron.