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The structural and microscopic magnetic properties of the pseudobinary Sc(Fe_{1-x}Ni_x)_2 system prepared under high pressure of 8 GPa were studied by X-ray diffraction and Mössbauer measurements in the range of 0.0 ≤ x ≤ 0.60. The samples for 0.0 ≤ x ≤ 0.10 have the hexagonal C14-type structure and those for 0.30 ≤ x ≤ 0.60 crystallize in the C15-type structure. Both the magnetic hyperfine field on ^{57}Fe and the Curie temperature decrease with the increasing Ni content and the system becomes paramagnetic for x ≈ 0.60 at room temperature. The form and temperature dependences of the Mössbauer spectra for 0.40 ≤ x ≤ 0.50 indicate the coexistence of paramagnetic and ferromagnetic regions in the samples and occurrence of magnetic clusters with a wide distribution of the Curie temperatures. It is interesting that T_C for the compounds obtained under high pressure are by about 100 K smaller in comparison with those for the isostructural samples produced under normal pressure even though interatomic distances are practically equal in the both types of compounds.