We found out yesterday that production of nickel has been stopped after the metal gained 250%. I don't understand why they would stop it but it will affect us at some point with our 14k white gold items.
Our base 14k white gold contains nickel and the only alternative that we have is palladium which gold which is currently running just below 2900.00 an ounce.
If the regular white gold becomes not available we will most likely shift our white gold items to palladium which which does not contain nickel.