Availability of Selected Strategic and Critical Minerals: Role of the Republic of South Africa

摘要

The report identifies the resources, production costs, and burdens that would be placed on alternative Market Economy Country producers of chromium, cobalt, gold, manganese, and platinum-group minerals if South Africa's production were subject to a long-term disruption. When long-term supplies from South African deposits are discounted, more than a few years reserves were found only for cobalt and manganese. Even for these two minerals, higher sustained prices would be required to increase manganese production capacity and to support means of cobalt transportation not through South Africa.