A Veracrypt volume on a removable (NTFS) hard disk was not mounting. Veracrypt was complaining of bad password or bad volume. I thought the password was correct. Finally, did
sudo fdisk -l
to find the device name, which was /dev/sdc1 for the removable drive in this case, and then
sudo ntfsfix /dev/sdc1
It finished in less than a second, noting that it had successfully completed. Then, tried mounting with Veracrypt, success!
After mounting, the encrypted volume was visible in Nemo with an icon to unmount it. But unmounting it with Nemo does not really unmount it, probably because Veracrypt uses su privileges to mount - you have to unmount (or Dismount) it via the Veracrypt interface. Only then would the removable drive become free of processes and unmountable via Nemo.
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