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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: Australian quarterly iron ore exports 225Mt

March 9, 2021

Did you know that Australian quarterly iron ore exports hit a historical peak of 225 million metric tonnes in Q2 2020 and that 191 million tonnes were exported to China? This and a whole lot more can be found in the Steel Data Room’s featured dataset, “Met Coal and Iron Ore Consumption, Trade, and Prices” […]

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First River Steel Data Room Dataset of the Week: North American Iron Ore Pellet Price

October 29, 2020

Following iron ore pellet prices? You may be interested in this week’s Steel Data Room featured dataset “Iron Ore Pellet Price, Cliffs NA Quarterly Realized Product Revenue Rate”. In this dataset, you can find Cleveland-Cliffs‘ quarterly realized product revenue rate for their Mining and Pelletizing business from Q4 1992 to their latest Q3 2020 data […]

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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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China should get out of steel not strong arm iron ore

July 10, 2009

Things have got serious in the iron ore negotiations in China with spurious ‘espionage’ charges levelled against domestic steel producers and Rio Tinto executives – or here if you don’t have an FT subscription. It’s a stretch to call any iron ore information a state secret, so what might have prompted Chinese officials to take […]

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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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