Miner urges govt to address beneficiation of chrome

MINERS have called on the government to address the cost structure of beneficiating minerals into final products, saying a high cost structure was deterrent.

African Chrome Fields, national projects director and Moti Group CEO, Ashruf Kaka, speaking on the sidelines of the just-ended mining indaba in Cape Town, South Africa, said the high cost of power especially for chrome miners deterred beneficiation.

“Beneficiation has to be there so that its economically viable it must be able to make commercial sense to be able to achieve it, as an idea, as a concept its perfect, as an economic tool for growth it’s a good thing to have, an excellent thing, but practically to achieve and how much it costs you to achieve, is very important,” Kaka said.

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