Minerals Portfolio

Nickel is a generally abundant natural element. Pure nickel is a hard, silvery-white metal. Nickel can be combined with other metals, such as iron, copper, chromium, and zinc, to form alloys. Nickel is emitted from volcanoes. In Zimbabwe, it is marketed and sold as Nickel concentrate with the following payable elements: Nickel, Copper, Cobalt, Palladium-With varying percentages depending on the grade of the ore.

Steel is generally hard, strong, durable, malleable alloy of iron and carbon. It can have other constituents such as manganese, chromium, nickel, copper and silicon, depending on the desired alloy properties.

PGMs mined in Zimbabwe consists of platinum, palladium, rhodium, ruthenium, iridium and osmium found along the Great Dyke from layered mafic-ultramafic intrusions extending over 550km at an average width of 11km, estimated to hold 2,8billion Mt of PGMs ore at 4g/t pt. Other mineral elements in the material contain gold, silver and base metals like nickel, copper and cobalt.

Ferrochrome, or ferrochromium (FeCr) is a dark gray to light gray ferroalloy. It is an alloy of chromium and iron, generally containing 50 to 70% chromium by weight.