Chromium Depletion

L. David Roper
http://arts.bev.net/RoperLDavid/
21 December 2007

Chromium is used in making stainless steel. The graph below shows the chromium extraction data for the world and two Verhulst function fits to the data in order to extrapolate into the future.


Chromium extraction rate for the world and Verhulst function fits to the data.

The red curve is a fit with total amount to be extracted of 500x106 tonnes and the blue curve is for a fit with twice that amount.