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Steel Data Room: World iron ore production 2.3Bt in 2020, Australia top producer followed by China

October 1, 2021

First River’s Steel Data Room has “tonnes” of data if you are looking for information on steelmaking raw materials. This week’s Nerds post focuses on two Steel Data Room datasets with world annual minerals production, consumption and trade data. “Met Coal and Iron Ore Consumption, Trade, and Prices” has data from the Australian Government’s Department […]

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First River Steel Data Room Dataset of the Week: US Coking Coal Consumption and Price

January 25, 2021

If you are following steelmaking raw materials consumption and pricing, you’ll be interested in this week’s featured dataset, “U.S. Coal Statistics” with data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA). Here you can find US coal reserves, production, employment, trade and pricing information back to 2000. Related to steelmaking, it includes coking coal pricing, consumption, […]

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First River Steel Data Room dataset of the week: World Mineral Production from 1970

September 1, 2020

Check out this week’s Steel Data Room featured dataset, “World Mineral Production from 1970”. The data from British Geological Survey can be expertly analyzed in the Steel Data Room, including production of key steelmaking raw materials such as iron ore, coal and zinc, with data by country from 1970 to 2018. The image below is […]

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Where to go to dig up the facts about iron ore

September 25, 2008

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’s going on and you need some background on the iron ore market and history, you can get some answers online through […]

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Drybulk freight rates information sources; the cost of shipping iron ore and coal around the world

April 14, 2008

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 […]

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