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		<title>China should get out of steel not strong arm iron ore</title>
		<link>http://www.nerdsofsteel.com/2009/07/10/china-should-get-out-of-steel-not-strong-arm-iron-ore/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2009 15:52:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Moss</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Things have got serious in the iron ore negotiations in China with spurious &#8216;espionage&#8217; charges levelled against domestic steel producers and Rio Tinto executives &#8211; or here if you don&#8217;t have an FT subscription. It&#8217;s a stretch to call any iron ore information a state secret, so what might have prompted Chinese officials to take [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Where to get European scrap price data</title>
		<link>http://www.nerdsofsteel.com/2009/01/19/where-to-get-european-scrap-price-data/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jan 2009 14:31:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jessica Wagner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Nerds of Steel reader in Australia wrote recently to ask where to find Turkish scrap prices.  As we&#8217;re always trying to accelerate readers research and reduce their costs, I am following up with information on good sources of European scrap prices.
Subscribers to Steel Business Briefing and Metal Bulletin can find European scrap prices [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Where to go to dig up the facts about iron ore</title>
		<link>http://www.nerdsofsteel.com/2008/09/25/where-to-go-to-dig-up-the-facts-about-iron-ore/</link>
		<comments>http://www.nerdsofsteel.com/2008/09/25/where-to-go-to-dig-up-the-facts-about-iron-ore/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Sep 2008 12:44:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jessica Wagner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There has been a lot of news lately about how the largest iron ore producers want to change the traditional yearly contract negotiations with their biggest customers.  If you are trying to follow what&#8217;s going on and you need some background on the iron ore market and history, you can get some answers online through [...]]]></description>
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		<title>US Carbon Steel Forecast 2009 Presentation</title>
		<link>http://www.nerdsofsteel.com/2008/09/16/us-carbon-steel-forecast-2009-presentation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Sep 2008 16:50:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Moss</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.nerdsofsteel.com/?p=378</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[NOTE: There&#8217;s an updated (for Q4 2008), revised (in Q1 2009) &#038; expanded version of this presentation  here:
Here&#8217;s a shortened version of a presentation I made last week to the MSCI Economic Summit: Forecast 2009 meeting in Chicago. It&#8217;s a great event if you get the chance to go. 

The essence of what I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Scrap or Pig &#8211; Iron is Iron</title>
		<link>http://www.nerdsofsteel.com/2008/06/18/whether-in-scrap-or-pig-iron-iron-is-iron/</link>
		<comments>http://www.nerdsofsteel.com/2008/06/18/whether-in-scrap-or-pig-iron-iron-is-iron/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jun 2008 20:02:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Moss</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It used to be the case that minimills (scrap buyers) and integrated mills (iron ore buyers) had very different cost structures. Integrated steel producers&#8217; costs were relatively fixed because iron ore and coking coal were sold on an annual contract basis and did not change much year to year. Scrap prices on the other hand, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Drybulk freight rates information sources; the cost of shipping iron ore and coal around the world</title>
		<link>http://www.nerdsofsteel.com/2008/04/14/drybulk-freight-rates-information-sources-the-cost-of-shipping-iron-ore-and-coal-around-the-world/</link>
		<comments>http://www.nerdsofsteel.com/2008/04/14/drybulk-freight-rates-information-sources-the-cost-of-shipping-iron-ore-and-coal-around-the-world/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Apr 2008 13:26:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jessica Wagner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you want to understand freight rates, you might first want to go to an industry overview provided by Genco Shipping and Trading Limited It includes a very good description of how different drybulk materials are shipped and what the rates you will find actually mean.
You can find current iron ore and coal freight rates [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Vertical integration into scrap &#8211; lessons from iron ore</title>
		<link>http://www.nerdsofsteel.com/2008/03/26/vertical-integration-into-scrap-lessons-from-iron-ore/</link>
		<comments>http://www.nerdsofsteel.com/2008/03/26/vertical-integration-into-scrap-lessons-from-iron-ore/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Mar 2008 01:56:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Moss</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There has been a recent flurry of steel producer acquisitions of scrap processors (SDI-Omnisource,&#160; Nucor- DJ Joseph, DJ Joseph-MRS, Galamba) and persistent rumors that others are circling targets. By my calculations steel producers now control about 40% of the US ferrous scrap industry. They controlled less than half that only a few years ago. If [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Iron ore statistics and commodity pricing</title>
		<link>http://www.nerdsofsteel.com/2008/03/12/iron-ore-statistics-and-commodity-pricing/</link>
		<comments>http://www.nerdsofsteel.com/2008/03/12/iron-ore-statistics-and-commodity-pricing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Mar 2008 13:59:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jessica Wagner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A good source of iron ore statistics are reports published by the UNCTAD secretariat (United Nations Conference on Trade and Development) in cooperation with the Raw Materials Group, based in Sweden.   You can view all the available publications on the Raw Materials Group website, but you can read the full World Investment Report [...]]]></description>
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		<title>2008 iron ore prices to increase by 65%</title>
		<link>http://www.nerdsofsteel.com/2008/02/18/2008-iron-ore-prices-to-increase-by-65/</link>
		<comments>http://www.nerdsofsteel.com/2008/02/18/2008-iron-ore-prices-to-increase-by-65/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Feb 2008 15:25:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tony Taccone</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[CVRD, the largest producer of iron ore in the world, has just reached an agreement with some of the major Asian steel producers  to increase 2008 benchmark iron ore prices by 65%  to 71%.   A typical integrated steel maker uses roughly 1.4 short tons of iron ore pellets to produce a short ton of hot [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Scrap supply from Russia to decline further</title>
		<link>http://www.nerdsofsteel.com/2008/01/23/scrap-supply-from-russia-to-decline-further/</link>
		<comments>http://www.nerdsofsteel.com/2008/01/23/scrap-supply-from-russia-to-decline-further/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jan 2008 15:39:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Moss</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a very interesting presentation from Russian mining &#38; metallurgical company Metalloinvest from September 2007. It provides some good data on Russian steel output through 2015 along with changing raw material use and sources as the Russian economy and particularly the steelmaking portion expand. This is especially important as the withdrawal of Russian scrap supply from [...]]]></description>
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