High-grade iron ore premium set to fall with coking coal prices
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Report summary
Table of contents
- Executive summary
- High-grade iron ore premium boosted by rise in coking coal prices
- Met coal contributed more to cost increase than iron ore in 2016
- Low-grade ore consumes more coke
- Low-grade scenario costs more when coking coal is expensive
- Iron ore fines premium set to fall
Tables and charts
This report includes 10 images and tables including:
- Spread between high- and low-grade fines in relation to coking coal price
- Iron ore fines 65% Fe to 62% Fe
- Met coal share of ironmaking costs
- Met coal contributes more to the increased ironmaking cost (RMB/tonne)
- Consumption rates based on three different sinter blends
- Consumption rates for the three scenarios
- Breakdown of cost changes among the three scenarios with a high coking coal price (RMB/thm)
- Breakdown of cost changes among the three scenarios with a low coking coal price (RMB/thm)
- Supply of high-grade ore will increase much faster than the overall supply
- Iron ore price outlook for iron ore fines
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