The Present Situation of Chromium Resources and Prospecting Direction in China

In China the chromium resource is short and is characterized by not evenly distributed,small in ore body,singular in origin,and so on.These characteristics causes the serious situation of chromium resource that 1)the reserves keeps decreasing and will become exhausted;and 2)the out put of ferrochromium keeps increasing,making the chromites be not able to meet the demand,leading to anincrease in import of chromites.In order to get out of this disadvan tageous situation,the prospecting direction includes 1)to look for new chromites deposits;2)to research in to new types of chromites;3)to reinforce the chromites prospect in the area surrounding the known deposit and to ward the depth;4)to apply new technology and method to indirectly look for chromites deposits;and 5)to study in detail the metallogenic theory to guide prospecting and metallogenic potentia levaluation.