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For each commodity they quote a range (low and high price) which reflect the buying and selling about 9-fold due to China's transition from light to heavy industry and its focus on manufacturing. [2] (China became the world's largest consumer of iron ore in 2003, [3] and accounts for over half of global metal consumption.) [4]
Rank Country Usable iron ore production (× 1000 tonnes) Year World 2,500,000: 2022 1: Australia: 880,000: 2023 2: China: 659,000: 2023 3: Brazil: 422,000: 2023 4 ...
Elemental iron is virtually absent on the Earth's surface except as iron-nickel alloys from meteorites and very rare forms of deep mantle xenoliths.Although iron is the fourth most abundant element in Earth's crust, composing about 5% by weight, [4] the vast majority is bound in silicate or, more rarely, carbonate minerals, and smelting pure iron from these minerals would require a prohibitive ...
Sales of iron ore fines and pellets represented 65% of total company revenues in 2014. In 2014, Vale sold 256 million metric tonnes of iron ore fines and 44 million metric tonnes of iron ore pellets. [8] Vale's Mariana Hub was the 9th largest iron ore mining center in the world in 2014, with an output of 39 million metric tonnes. [14]
Argus launched coverage of the global iron ore market with daily report Argus Steel Feedstocks in February 2013. [17] Argus expanded its metals coverage further in 2015, after acquiring MetalPrices.com [ 18 ] - a specialist pricing, news and analysis service focusing on speciality metals, rare earths and ferro-alloys.
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Iron ore mines in the Pilbara region. Rio Tinto's iron ore operations in the Pilbara began in 1966, [2] with the Mount Tom Price mine opening that year. Mount Tom Price was the company's first mine to open in the Pilbara. [8] The mine has an annual production capacity of 28 million tonnes of iron ore, sourced from open-pit operations.