Rio Tinto analysis suggests that around 100 million tonnes of primarily
Chinese iron ore production had become unprofitable, and sees evidence on the ground that a large proportion of this has already been curtailed.
Not exact matches
Even though I know nothing about the
iron ore market, and certainly not as much as the CEO of Fortescue, I know arithmetic, and even before I heard Minack's discussion of the global increase in
production, I simply could not get the arithmetic that connected
Chinese interest rates with Australian
iron ore exports to work otherwise.
Analysts expected the
iron ore to be supported by the high
Chinese marginal cost of
production post c2012.
The mining sector was one such example; with yesterday's gains on the back of the expansion of the
Chinese coast mystic product still fresh in the minds, Rio Tinto announced that their first half
production of
iron ore had broken numerous records.