PGE has established itself as a very efficient chrome supplier in the South Africa and has established a good relationship with the mines in Rustenburg and Burgersfort where some of these are not only mines but private owned wash plants. In the long term run Painite Gold Enterprises will establish its own wash plant and warehouse to store the required chrome, be it Rom, Lumpy or concentrate.
We will supply you with the chrome product you need.
PGE can supply the chrome product range to meet any buyer’s specifications such as
• Rom – 38%-40%
• Concentrate – 42%-44%
• Lumpy – 38% – 40%
PGE is willing to be a market competitor with regards to the UG2 Chrome pricing of their supply. We expect to have competitive advantage over African Chrome suppliers and look to expanding to Global supply of chrome by 2030.
Feel free to contact us for Chrome Rom/ Chrome Concentrate/ Chrome Lumpy (Lumpies) which are for sale in South Africa. (Rustenburg/City Deep) as we are willing to supply the chrome to any client within the Southern African region.
Chrome Mining Operation in Steelpoort
General
World resources are estimated to be greater than 12 billion tons of shipping-grade chromite, sufficient to meet demand for centuries. In the region of 95% of the world’s chromium resources are concentrated in Southern Africa and Kazakhstan.
South Africa is the world’s largest producer of ferrochrome. The country holds about 70% of the world’s total chrome reserves, mostly located in the Bushveld Igneous Complex (BIC) ores, and produces 75% of the world’s ferrochrome. India and Kazakhstan are other major producers.
Chromite is mined primarily from the UG2, and LG and MG chromitite seams of which the UG2 also contains significant amounts of PGE’s. Thus several platinum mines produce chromite as a byproduct. There are several primary chrome mines, specifically maintained to provide chromite feed to the developing ferrochrome industry. Most of South Africa’s chrome mines are developed along the Eastern BIC, in the Steelpoort Valley.
Production
South Africa produced an estimated 9,600,000 tons of chromium ore in 2009.
Samancor Chrome is the second largest ferrochrome producer in the world, with total chromite resources exceeding 650 million tons. These are expected to support current mining activity for well over 200 years at the current rate of extraction.
Samancor Chrome was established in 1975 as a result of a merger between SA Manganese Ltd and Amcor Ltd. In November 2009 International Mineral Resources (IMR) became the majority shareholder with a 70% direct shareholding in Kermas South Africa (Pty) Limited, who bought the group in June 2005.
Demand
South Africa currently supplies in excess of 50% of worldwide charge chrome demand. Over 80% of chrome ore output is consumed in the production of ferrochrome in South Africa. The remainder of the ore is exported.
Chromex mining’s projects are located on the western and eastern limbs of the Bushveld Complex. Chromex currently has a New Order Mining Right over the Mecklenburg farm in the Limpopo Province where it intends to mine chromite over a 10 year period.
The 271 hectare Stellite chrome project, located on the Western Limb of the Bushveld complex in South Africa, has a New Order Mining Right and 31.9Mt of chrome resources comprising four seams. The project has been extensively drilled and has had approximately 170,000 tonnes of chromite mined and sold both to the domestic and international chrome markets.
Chromex currently produces 42% and 44% metallurgical grade chrome concentrate.
Uses and Role-players
Xstrata Alloy’s chrome mining operations mine the chromitite deposits developed within the bushveld complex of South Africa. The Helena chrome mine is wholly owned by Xstrata, and lays to the south of it’s Thorncliffe chrome mine on the Eastern Limb of the Bushveld Complex.
Assmang’s Chrome Division consists of the Dwarsrivier chrome mine and the Machadodorp ferrochrome works both in Mpumalanga.
The strengthening effect of forming stable metal carbides at the grain boundaries and the strong increase in corrosion resistance made chromium an important alloying material for steel. The high-speed tool steels contain between 3 and 5%
Chromium. Stainless steel, the main corrosion-proof metal alloy, is formed when chromium is added to iron in sufficient concentrations, usually above 11%. For its formation, ferrochromium is added to the molten iron. Also nickel-based alloys increase in strength due to the formation of discrete, stable metal carbide particles at the grain boundaries. For example, Inconel 718 contains 18.6% chromium. Because of the excellent high-temperature properties of these nickel superalloys, they are used in jet engines and gas turbines in lieu of common structural materials.
The relative high hardness and corrosion resistance of unalloyed chromium makes it a good surface coating, being still the most “popular” metal coating with unparalleled combined durability.
