"Cliffs now anticipates an expanded project annually producing 1 million tons of export chromite ore concentrate in addition to the original 600,000 tons of ferrochrome"

World production of chromite in 2008 was 24-million tons, according to the International Chromium Development Association.

About 3,4-million tons of ferrochrome was produced in South Africa last year (2008) out of a total of eight-million worldwide

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