Since 2000, the tonnage and sourcing of primary nickelNickel (Ni) has changed dramatically: global primary mined Ni has almost tripled to 3.9 million tons mined in 2024. Canada’s share of world mined Ni has dropped from about 15% to about 3% in 2024. IndonesiaIndonesia’s share of the global Ni supplySupply has increased by about 8% in 2000 to over 63% in 2024 at low costLow cost, which is having a negative impact on other producers and is upsetting the global market. Low Ni pig iron productionProductions continues to upset market forces. DemandDemand from electric vehiclesElectric Vehicles (EVs) has slowed; with the Ni demandDemand for batteriesBattery depressedElectric vehicles batteries, the Ni price has weakened. In IndonesiaIndonesia, new plants have typically duplicated the conventional plant design with minimal change; less attention is also paid to environmentalEnvironmental conditions. On the other hand, several promising, technically innovative projects, representing 6% of world Ni at start-up in Ni-rich New Caledonia, have failed to deliver anticipated tonnages and profitability, with the result that either productionProductions has been considerably curtailed, or plants have been placed on care and maintenance. This chapter explores and discusses these changes, reviews current pyrometallurgical operating plants, the impact of the export ban of ore from IndonesiaIndonesia, and the technologiesTechnology used. In addition, changes, and improvements in technologyTechnology (such as net zero technologiesNet zero technologies and use of artificial intelligenceUse of artificial intelligence) and efforts to lower CO2 emissions will be discussed, and ideas for Ni productionProductions over about the next decade will be offered. The chapter title was inspired by a paper having a similar title by the late Paul E. Queneau and published 57 years ago describing the vastly changing Ni scene in 1968, when Canada produced over 70% of the world’s mined Ni, and several new lateriteLaterites Ni plants would soon come on-line.