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Mafic Layered Intrusions

Another major groups of deposits in the mafic layered complexes are platinum group elements and chrome deposits but unlike copper nickel massive sulfides they don't form as puddles on the floor of the intrusions they form in discrete layers well up in the magma chamber. The PGE's that's platinum Get price

UG2 Chromite Bulletin

Traditionally, platinum producers would stockpile this resource as waste material. However rising platinum mining costs and increased smelting capacity in China, enabled UG2 chrome to be sold as a by-product. The availability of UG2 chrome ore has upset the balance in the South African and global chrome ore Get price

Chromium Statistics and Information

Chromium (Cr) has a wide range of uses in metals, chemicals, and refractories. It is one of the Nation's most important strategic and critical materials. Chromium use in iron, steel, and nonferrous alloys enhances hardenability and resistance to corrosion and oxidation. The use of chromium to produce stainless steel and nonferrous alloys are two of its more important Get price

Tensions Flare Between Zimbabwe Miners and Chinese

Aug 24, 2020Chrome, a blackish mineral, is used to produce stainless steel. The Chinese are major shareholders in the Zimbabwe Mining and Alloy Smelting Company, known as ZIMASCO, one of the country's largest chrome-mining companies. They also invest heavily in gold, platinum and diamonds, giving them outsize influence over Zimbabwe's vast minerals Get price

Chromium processing

Chromium processing, preparation of the ore for use in various products. Chromium (Cr) is a brilliant, hard, refractory metal that melts at 1,857 C (3,375 F) and boils at 2,672 C (4,842 F). In the pure state it is resistant to ordinary corrosion, resulting in its application as an electroplated Get price

Fastmarkets Ores and Alloys

Chrome ore South Africa UG2 concentrates index basis 42%, cif China, $/tonne -CHO-0003 Weekly Chrome ore Turkish lumpy 40-42%, cfr main Chinese ports, $/tonne -CHO-0002 Weekly Ferro-chome low phosphorous, min 65% Cr, max 0.015% P, delivered Europe, $/lb -FEC-0001 Every second week Get price

Chrome Prices, charts, and News – Argus Metals

Argus price assessments cover the most active trading regions for each commodity. Learn more about the specifications for each price and view the trend of volatility by expanding each price (click More), or click through to the price landing page for a view of the tools available to subscribers. Get price

Chrome mining – Bauba Platinum

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-generative and through the exploitation of its near-surface and underground chrome resource, delivers run-of-mine chrome-ore and concentrate chrome from its washing plant to China. Get price

South Africa crucial to global chrome supply, Chromium

South Africa is an irreplaceable supplier of chrome ore and ferrochrome, which is, in turn, an irreplaceable component of China-dominated stainless steel production, global delegates to last week's well-attended Chromium 2017 conference heard. South Africa, as the dominant global chrome producer, last year delivered half of the world's production of chrome ore. Get price

Industrial Minerals

Marico Chrome – South Africa. Oman Chromite – Oman . Rand York Minerals – South Africa. Samancor – South Africa. Xstrata – South Africa. Markets. Ferrochrome markets consumed 93% of the chrome ore produced in 2009, with non-metallurgical markets accounting for almost all of the balance (save for 0.1% used as chromium metal). Get price

Maximising South Africa's chrome ore endowment to create

CHROME ORE EXPORTS FROM SOUTH AFRICA Chinese chrome ore imports by source Thousands of tonnes RSA India Turkey Iran Others 1.113 2000 2001 2010 1.090 2002 1.143 2003 1.779 2004 2.148 2005 3.024 2006 4.325 2007 6.091 2008 6.849 2009 6.763 8.666 #1 #1 #1 #1 #1 #1 #1 #1 South Africa is now the number one exporter of chrome ore to China. India was Get price

Strong outlook for recovering ferrochrome industry – Merafe

Efficiency is enhanced through pelletising to cope with increasing volumes of fine chrome ore, in-house training programmes to overcome skills shortages, the proximity of the Port of Maputo, the use of more cost-effective upper group two (UG2) chromite ore recovered from platinum tailings, as well as radically reduced use of expensive coke. Get price

Fastmarkets Ores and Alloys

Chrome ore South Africa UG2 concentrates index basis 42%, cif China, $/tonne -CHO-0003 Weekly Chrome ore Turkish lumpy 40-42%, cfr main Chinese ports, $/tonne -CHO-0002 Weekly Ferro-chome low phosphorous, min 65% Cr, max 0.015% P, delivered Europe, $/lb -FEC-0001 Every second week Get price

Chrome vs. Chromium

Sep 19, 2018Chrome, which you may see as decorative trim on cars and motorcycles or to harden tools used for industrial processes, is an electroplated layer of chromium over another metal. Either hexavalent chromium or trivalent chromium may be used to produce chrome. Get price

Metal Profile: Chromium

Feb 03, 2019Aluminothermic production of high purity chromium metal accounts for over 95% of chromium metal produced today. The first step in this process requires that the chromite ore is roasted with soda and lime in the air at 2000F (1000C), which creates a sodium chromate containing calcine.It can be leached away from the waste material and then reduced and precipitated as chromic oxide (Cr Get price

Spiral Concentrator

Multotec-designed spiral concentrators are used across the world in coal, gold, iron ore, mineral sands, platinum and chrome processing plants and other minerals.. As a turnkey supplier of gravity concentration equipment across the world, Multotec can deliver end-to-end spiral solutions, from process audits and test work, to complete spiral concentration plants optimised for your process. Get price

Cronimet Chrome Mining SA (Pty) Ltd

The CRONIMET Chrome divisions are part of the CRONIMET Mining Group AG, a specialist servicing the global steel industry for more than 30 years. As a family-owned business established in the 1980s, the Group has become an integral part of the stainless steel, ferroalloy and primary metal mining industry around the world. Get price

Current ores and alloys news and price reports

PRICING NOTICE: Amendment to publication day of European, seaborne chrome prices. Fastmarkets will change the publication day of its European and seaborne price assessments, indices and indicators covering chrome ore and ferro-chrome to Tuesday, from Get price

Chrome Ores on Ferrochrome Smelting

The upper group two (UG2) concentrate from a platinum group metal (PGM) mine in Rustenburg is also selected. Each mine produces 3 grades of chrome ore, namely lumps, chips, and concentrates. The lumps and chips of chrome ores are used as raw material and are directly fed in submerged arc furnace, while the concentrates of chrome ore Get price

OVERVIEW OF ZIMBABWE'S MINERAL RESOURCE POTENTIAL

platinum group metals and chrome ore. Mobile belts • Metamorphic belts surrounding the Craton: • the neo-Archaean Limpopo Mobile Belt to the south, • the palaeo- Proterozoic Magondi to the northwest, and • the neo-Proterozoic Zambezi Mobile Belt to the north and northeast. Get price

UG2 Chromite Ore Study

This seam is characterised by high levels of low grade chrome ore (UG2). Traditionally, platinum producers would stockpile this resource as waste material. However rising platinum mining costs and increased smelting capacity in China, enabled UG2 chrome to be sold as a by-product. Get price

Chrome vs. Stainless vs. Platinum

May 23, 2014Steel isn't officially stainless unless it has at least 11% chromium. Blade makers who use strip stock with 9% to 11% chromium often use the term Chrome instead of stainless, or in some cases as a marketing ploy. Platinum is used in an edge treatment to harden the edges and make them last longer. As always with blades, chrome or stainess, YMMV. Get price

ALSER MADENCİLİK

Out of 28,9 million tones chromium ore consumed in year 2015, 27,7 million tons were used in ferro-chromium production, 605 thousand tones were used to obtain chromium chemicals and metal chrome, 480 thousand tones were used in cast sand industry, and 70 thousand tons were used in refractor brick-mortar production. 20,2 million tons of produced Get price

Platinum: The mineral native Platinum information and pictures

Platinum is rare, with few noteworthy occurrences. Russia is the most important producer of Platinum specimens, producing fine nuggets along a north-south belt along the spine of the Ural Mountains. The districts producing the largest specimens are Nizhniy-Tagil in Get price

Where is Platinum Mined?

Where is Platinum Mined? Platinum is a Silver-white Precious Metal that is rarer than Gold. The Platinum bullion value is high because of its scarcity and its use in industrial applications. Platinum is mined very few places around the world. With mining regulations crippling some parts of the world, Platinum mining remains strong in others. Get price

Platinum is produced in South Africa by Amplats, Impala

The recovery of platinum-group metals from ore of the UG-2 Reef in the Bushveld Complex. Twelfth Congress of the Council of Mining and Metallurgical Institutions, Johannesburg, The South African Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, 3-7 May 1982, Volume 2, pp.629-634. Get price

African Rainbow Minerals

Mined Resources: Platinum, PGMs, iron, iron ore, manganese ore, chrome ore, copper, coal, nickel, copper and gold Operational Regions: South Africa, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Papua New Guinea African Rainbow Minerals (ARM) is a top South African mining and minerals company. Get price

Mining and tax in South Africa: Costs and benefits

South Africa is the world's largest producer of platinum group metals, chrome ore, manganese and vanadium and a major supplier of gold (world rank 2) coal (5), iron ore (9), nickel (5) and uranium (5). 5 The Bushveld Igneous Complex in northern South Africa is a hugely mineral- rich region extending for 400 kilometres which contains most of Get price