The Mond Nickel Company Limited was a United Kingdom-based mining company, formed on September 20, 1900, licensed in Canada to carry on business in the province of Ontario, from October 16, 1900. The firm was founded by Ludwig Mond (1839–1909) to process Canadian ore from mines near Sudbury, which were then shipped to Mond's works in Britain for final purification via his patented carbonyl process.
Image: Mond nickel coin
Ludwig Mond FRS was a German-born British chemist and industrialist. He discovered an important, previously unknown, class of compounds called metal carbonyls.
Portrait of Ludwig Mond by Solomon Joseph Solomon, circa 1909
Ludwig Mond (right) as a member of the Corps Rhenania Heidelberg, ca. 1856