Iron Ore to rocket this year7 Apr 2011 23:46
Steel, iron ore and ferrochrome prices up to 50% this year.
Sahit_Muja, Albanian_Minerals: Steel, iron ore and ferrochrome prices up to 50% this year.
Growth in demand from India, China along with Japan reconstruction requirement to push steel, iron ore and ferrochrome prices up to 50% this year.
Investments in infrastructural projects in India ,China, Brazil, Qatar, EU and reconstruction of Japan's tsunami-affected areas will push steel prices higher .
There is 15% growth demand for steel, iron ore, chrome ore and ferrochrome in China and India.
Increases demand for steel worldwide is going to have a big impact on the global supply and demand balance.
Demand for metals like chrome ore, steel , iron ore, ferrochrome which has also outpaced supply. Steel prices reached $822 per metric ton recently, a 14 per cent rise since the start of this year.
The Japanese government has pledged more than $40 billion towards reconstruction efforts of Japan's tsunami-affected areas.
Iron ore exporters to raise contract prices about 25 percent in the second quarter from the first as spot prices hit a record.
The international markets, The US and European Steel official talked about increase in prices saying high input cost is the reason and increase in the domestic demand .
Albanian_Minerals estimates, price of coking coal will be 35 percent up during the second quarter from the first quarter, on account of increasing global demand.
Chrome ore exporters are increasing prices as oil prices have increased dramatically.The demand for chrome ore, coal, iron ore in China and India is estimated to increase 20 percent this year.
Albanian_Minerals and Bytyci SHPK will increase 30% the price of chrome ore do to high oil prices.
Albanian_Minerals have start mining one of the largest deposit of chrome ore in Europe on Zogaj, Tropoje.
This open pit mining in Zogaj's location will be one of the largest production of chrome ore in Europe. The cost of mining chrome ore in this location is up 30% this year.