Industrial Minerals


Chromite prices won't improve "until after Chinese New Year"

13 December 2011

by Siobhan Lismore

Despite legal wrangling in US, Oregon says has eight years chromite sand supply

Keywords: chromite, foundry grade, Cr2O3, South Africa, sand, metallurgical, chrome, steel, China

There is no shortage of chromite sand for the foundry industry is the message IM is hearing loud and clearly from the market this week.

 

Traders involved in the market all over the world revealed that chromite sand prices are reducing as metal prices fall off. The trend in prices looks likely to continue into the New Year.

 

“We are seeing prices offered by South African and Turkish companies as below what is currently mentioned elsewhere,” one China-based trader told IM....