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Chrome ore China tariff threat to South Africa’s platinum producers

Business Day | June 15, 2012 | 12:39 pm Base Metals Precious Metals Africa Palladium Platinum

STUDY: South African mining to remain stagnant

Postage stamp from the golden years

A VITAL revenue stream for platinum miners — chrome ore — may be choked off if ferrochrome producers are successful in lobbying for a protectionist export tariff of $100/ton in their desperate attempt to protect their own businesses from China’s…