Home South Africa’s coronavirus-linked lockdown stokes fears of supply tightness in China chrome market Chinese chrome ore buyers have expressed concern at the possibility of supply tightness emerging in the coming months following news that South African mines and furnaces will shut amid a nationwide lockdown later this week. South Africa will enter a 21-day nationwide lockdown from midnight on Thursday March 26, with the country’s metals and mining operations to be placed on care and maintenance. The move... Email this article Your details Your recipients's details You can enter a maximum of 5 recipients. Use ; to separate email addresses. Email yourself a copy? Enter the code: Ok You might notice something different here.As we continue our evolution, our data and market news is now available through the Fastmarkets platform and a trial of this website is no longer available. Already registered? Log in Our new delivery solution allows you to access the prices and news that matters most to you in a way that delivers value, quality and a unique, fully customizable view for you. Learn More We are developing an experience that allows you to test drive building your view of our data and news on the new platform. In the meantime, we can prepare a quote for you and show you around. Get Started Contact Us +44 (0) 20 7779 8260 hello.mb@fastmarkets.com Published Siyi Liu March 25, 2020 03:51 GMT Shanghai Keywords chrome ore ferro-chrome South Africa lockdown novel coronavirus 2019-nCoV Related news {{article|snippet:'title'|removeHtmlTags}} {{article|fields:'dates'|date:dateArticleFormat}}