With low electricity prices, South Africa has been able to expand chromite and ferrochrome production more or less continuously since the AOD process was developed in the 1960s to use ferrochrome smelted from lower grade ores. Samancor was created in 1975 and its Chrome
CATCHMENTS IN SOUTHERN AFRICA Peter Ashton 1, David Love 2, Harriet Mahachi 3 and Paul Dirks 3 1 CSIR Environmentek, P.O. Box 395, Pretoria 0001, South Africa 2 Geology Department 3 Mineral Resources Centre University of Zimbabwe, PO Box MP167, Mount Pleasant, Harare, Zimbabwe August 2001 MINING, MINERALS AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT