Chrome in Türkiye in Terms of Economic Geography

Abstract

It is guessed that the quantity of the reserves of chrome which is one of the important export product in Türkiye, is 242 million tones located in 137 mines. Even though the number mentioned above seems a lot, the chromide depostits having a strategical location in terms of transportation, the ones close to the harbours or the ones having a high grade of ore have been operated and many of these are consumed for about 150 years. The reason why the costs have been increasing is because not ony the rest of the mines are poor in terms of the ore grade, but also the ones which are closer to earth are consumed and this issue led the mining operations to go deeper. It is wrong to keep selling chrome as an ore. It's necessary that it would be exported as ferrochromium in Türkiye, as many other countries. On the contrary ferrochromium plants are not enough for that requirement stated above. This study the histrorical development process, quantity and geographical distribution of chrome in our country which posseses a very high strategical importance for whole world.