Comment: Measures to support the chrome value chain
Read more about chrome. Over the past decade the South African chrome ore mining business has grown strongly with primary chrome ore exports rising from 4.7 million tonnes in 2010 to 14.1 Mt in 2019. If chrome produced as a by-product of PGM mining is included, South Africa accounted for 78% of primary chrome ore world …
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Chrome producers want ferrochrome solutions that exclude …
South Africa's six other ferrochrome producing companies, which consume 8.2-million tonnes of chrome ore a year, employ 6 851 people directly, support 68 000 jobs overall, contribute R41-billion ...
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Chrome Ore – Everything You Need to Know | SwapX
South Africa is home to most of the world's chromite deposits and is actually the largest ferrochrome and chromite ore producer. In 2021 alone, South Africa produced 18 million MT of chromium. Compared to 2020, SA's output rose from 13,200 million MT, and continues to dominate the rest of the world's chromium producers by a decent margin.
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Lawless South Africa has bulk commodity chrome pirates
By some estimates, South Africa now loses around 10% of its production each year to illegal mining, amounting to 600 000 t of stolen material. This chrome is exported in bulk, primarily to China ...
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South African ferrochrome industry 'running out of time' as it fights
South Africa's ferrochrome industry has taken its first steps towards independent power generation, with plans to generate up to 750 MW of its own electricity (comprising wind, solar and cogenerated power) by 2024, Mining Weekly can report. The industry adds significant value to chrome ore by elevating it to ferrochrome, which it sells …
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Chrome market could change with new export tax regime, …
0:00 / 3:19. 1X. A "delicate" balancing act between chrome ore mining and stainless steel production may be under threat as South Africa changes its export tax regime to boost the commodity ...
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How illegal mining gangs in South Africa feeding China's demand …
Before the energy crisis, South Africa smelted about 90 per cent of its chrome domestically; today about 90 per cent is exported in raw form. This change created opportunities for both legitimate ...
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Mantengu expects first chrome concentrate production in June
Mantengu group CEO Mike Miller says the initial chrome plant was originally designed to accommodate a production throughout of 30 000 t a month, or 70 t/h. The commissioning of the new chrome ...
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New chrome mine owner plans to grow in 'very …
JOHANNESBURG (miningweekly) – The new owner of a chrome mine in North West province that was placed on care and maintenance following the Covid-19 lockdown, plans to grow production …
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Jubilee secures six-year chrome deal in South Africa
British mineral company Jubilee has announced the expansion of its chrome and platinum group metals (PGMs) operations in South Africa. The deal, signed with an …
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Chrome producers want ferrochrome solutions that …
South Africa's non-integrated chrome ore exporters want to discuss ways of solving the existential threat to South Africa's struggling ferrochrome industry to avoid the need for a tax being imposed on the …
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Chrome Mining
Bauba diversified its business into low-cost, cash-generative, mining operations in 2015 with the Company acquiring 60% of the beneficial rights to the Moeijelijk Chrome Mine. Moeijelijk is situated on the Eastern Limb of the Bushveld Igneous Complex, with LG6A/6 and LG7 chrome ore-bearing reefs. The operation is efficient, low-cost and cash ...
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Minerals | Free Full-Text | Resource Intensity Trends …
Processing resource requirements in mineral extractive industries tend to increase over time as ore grades decrease, which consequently increases the environmental footprint of operations and …
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Mining in SA
In 2018 the mining sector contributed R351 billion to the South African gross domestic product (GDP) A total of 456,438 people were employed in the mining sector in 2018. Each person employed in the mining sector has up to nine indirect dependants. The mining sector has, for many years, attracted valuable foreign direct investment to South Africa.
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CHROMITE GEOLOGY OF ZIMBABWE AND RELATED …
•South Africa : 72% of world Resource - Stratiform •Zimbabwe: 12% -Stratiform & podiform ... Stratiform South Dyke Lalapanzi D22-Mining is on seam 1 and 2. Seam 3 and 4 are poorly developed.--Qualities average range Cr2O3,35-42 : Cr/Fe 2.0-2.2 ... chrome mining in Zimbabwe is, no doubt, underground. PRODUCTIVITY
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South African ferrochrome industry 'running out of time' as it fights
Mining Weekly can confirm that local ferrochrome producers have indicated that there have been no objections from China regarding South Africa imposing a chrome ore tax, which could potentially ...
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SOUTH AFRICA'S BENEFICIATION STRATEGY AND
ferrochrome industries in the eastern bushveld complex and within the South African mining sector. The assumption of the benefit of the chrome ore export tax is based on South Africa's chrome ore reserves, production, and export of chrome ore. ... South Africa's chrome ore production, 2010 – 2020. ..... 44 Figure 18 - South Africa's ...
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South African Mining Industry Trends Report 2022 with
Contact Data CONTACT: ResearchAndMarkets Laura Wood,Senior Press Manager press@researchandmarkets For E.S.T Office Hours Call 1-917-300-0470 For U.S./ CAN Toll Free Call 1-800-526-8630 For ...
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African Chrome Fields unveils world-first mining technology
Headquartered in South Africa, African Chrome Fields is a private, black-owned mining company with mining operations spanning along the Great Dyke region in the Midlands province of Zimbabwe ...
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African Chrome Fields unveils world-first mining technology
Headquartered in South Africa, African Chrome Fields is a private, black-owned mining company with mining operations spanning along the Great Dyke region …
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South African villages are being ravaged by illegal chrome mining
30 October 2023 8 minutes Stephen Kgamotso, 19, works an illegal chrome mine Industrial-scale illegal mining is destroying villages in South Africa and now accounts for ten per …
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The impact of platinum production from UG2 ore on ferrochrome
This UG2 reef contants significant quantities of chromite with typically a chrome-to-iron (Cr/Fe) ratio of 1.35. UG2 ores can contain between 10 and 25% Cr2O3 depending upon the reef width and the ...
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Catalogue of South African mine tailings for
Chrome: Platchro Mining Services-25.70: 27.75: North West: Chrome: Marico-25.03: 26.16: North West: Chrome: International Ferro Metals-25.73: 27.62: North West: Chrome: Blue Moonlight Prop ... recognised as discrete clusters of various crustal deformation events and ages across South Africa, with major mining areas …
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Save SA Smelters responds to ChromeSA's 'high-risk' analysis
South Africa's ferrochrome producing companies, which consume 8.2-million tonnes of chrome ore a year, employ 6 851 people directly, support 68 000 jobs overall, contribute R41-billion to South ...
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UNEARTHING THE TRUTH
The extractives industry in South Africa has a dark and sordid history characterised by discrimination, exploitation and exclusion. The mining industry was both a beneficiary and a driver of colonialism and apartheid in its economic, social and legal manifestations. As the mining industry grew, Black communities were driven
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THE SUPREME COURT OF APPEAL OF SOUTH AFRICA …
interdicting and restraining the first respondent, North West Chrome Mining Proprietary Limited (Chrome Mining) and the second respondent, Monageng Family Mining Services Proprietary Limited (Monageng) from: '2.1 conducting, facilitating or being involved in any manner whatsoever in mining activities
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LANXESS completes sale of its stake in chrome ore mine in …
Specialty chemicals company LANXESS completed the sale of its 74 percent stake in a chrome ore mine in Rustenburg, South Africa, on September 15. The new …
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Civil unrest hits South African mineral supply chains
Disruptions of supply routes into and out of KwaZulu-Natal due to the civil unrest resulted in Southern Africa's largest oil refinery, the 165,000 bbl/d South African Petroleum Refineries, owned in partnership by Shell Refining SA and BP Southern Africa, declaring force majeure on July 13. The refinery in Durban said it was unable to sustain ...
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10 PROBLEMS FACING CHROME MINING IN SOUTH AFRICA
Here are 10 problems facing chrome mining in South Africa: Declining Reserves: Some of the major chrome mining regions in South Africa have been in operation for many years, leading to the depletion of high-grade ore reserves. As a result, mining companies are now required to extract lower-grade ores, which increases …
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