Debate, iron ore, Australia & China.18 Jan 2026 08:28
FT this weekend:
"A powerful Beijing-backed company that has a stranglehold over China’s massive purchases of iron ore has become the biggest risk in the global market for the commodity, according to one of the world’s leading miners.
China Mineral Resources Group has started to flex its muscles in price negotiations, shaking up the global market for iron ore, the world’s most traded commodity after oil.
Big iron ore producers including Australia’s BHP and Brazil’s Vale were last year caught in protracted negotiations with CMRG, which acts as a central buyer of foreign iron ore supplied to state-owned steelmakers, over this year’s sales contracts."
I sold my shares in UFO recently because of concerns about its management. Concerns raised by posters who unlike me were LTH.
Recently the board has talked about silver and other metals but maybe there is still a demand for iron ore? Might the Chinese buy UFO to gain access to Hanc@ck in 2026?