Industrial Minerals


Zimbabwe bans chrome ore exports to up refining investment

21 April 2011

by Jessica Roberts

Higher domestic ferrochrome production encouraged, lump exports banned

Keywords: Zimbabwe, chromite, chrome, ferrochrome, smelter, refining, beneficiation

Zimbabwe has banned all exports of chromite ore in an effort to secure higher domestic production of value-added products such as ferrochrome, the country’s Ministry of Mines and Mining announced last night.

 

Since 20 April the country’s estimated 400,000 tpa chromite exports have been postponed, leaving its consumers – primarily China and South Africa – to...