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Iron ore price spells trouble for Australia’s mining economy



As iron ore prices drop, Australians could see increased taxes and cuts to services as demand for our mining resources takes a hit.

The resource boom and commodity trading has seen Australia escape the worst of multiple global economic downturns, with iron ore selling $136 billion lat year alone.

In July, Rio Tinto celebrated the shipment of four billion tonnes of iron ore from the Pilbara in Western Australia to China.

But as Beijing’s economy worsens, top steelmaking firm Baowu finally admitted it will receive no significant stimulus package from Xi Jinping’s Chinese Communist Party.

Treasurer Jim Chalmers has warned that the federal Albanese government may need to make some tough decisions as a result, while the RBA is also watching closely.

But it’s not just China’s economy.

Experts say the whole steel industry is shifting, with Australia now facing growing international competition from Brazil, the Middle East and Africa who are offering greener iron ore alternatives with environmental benefits.

It’s all part of the global economic transformation from fossil fuel-based economies like ours, to zero carbon-leading ones. 

Steelmakers around the world are seeking new ways to process iron ore, but new technology like electric-arc furnaces need either ultra-high-quality iron ore or recycled metals.

#mining #australia #china #steel

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30 Comments

  1. Imagine if only we taxed these resources for 30 odd years we would have enough for high speed trains from north to south and west to east….metro to melb airport. So much can be done had we taxed these resources like Norway, Qatar….responsible governments would’ve done it.

  2. China has crashed and brought Australia along with it . China has been too speculative in property and will enter deflation and economic crisis for at least decades

  3. Our manufacturing was ruined when our goverment signed the Lima aggreement in 1974 and we have been going backward for manufacturing ever since.We can thank Labour and Liberals for this

  4. High quality ores and energy deposits are now mostly things of the past. Plenty remains, but it’s of lower quality, and both more costly and ecologically destructive to extract. In nature, there are countless examples where energy exists, but the effort to obtain it is so large that the meal is effectively off the menu. In our lifetimes, society will have to redirect increasing amounts of our energy surplus towards obtaining the surplus itself, leaving less affordable energy to support many of our current economic activities. One day – the energy it will cost to extract energy will be so large it won’t make sense to do so even though resources remain. Energy depletion will act as a growing tax on human societies.

  5. It was suicidal and it started a long time ago, throwing all this money into real estate just created the biggest real estate bubble ever created in the history of mankind. But unfortunately people's greed has been uncontrollable, often when I talk to people they look at me with a big smile and tell me that they have become millionaires because they think their houses are worth millions. The reality is that this is not the case… But by the time they do, it will be too late.

  6. Australia has created one of the biggest real estate bubbles in history of mankind! The consequences of this could be disastrous. Nonetheless, there’s a shift happening where pension funds are moving from stock market investments, like the ASX, into real estate. In the next few years, we might see superannuation funds buying up Australian houses on a massive scale. This is likely in preparation for what’s coming. Don’t believe that superannuation funds will immediately buy properties worth millions; what they want now is government approval to do so. When the housing market crashes and property prices plummet, like Wile E. Coyote without a parachute, all the foreclosed properties will be snapped up by superannuation funds and rented out as they disengage from a non-performing stock market

  7. China's also got iron ore supplies from South Africa and South America, China's also found significant coal reserves both of which will see them reducing reliance on us. Only food and wine is left and given the new 1,500 square kilometre China has built now getting global wine awards…..
    Long term planning versus planning driven by press release. Or China issues press releases once it's done v We're gunna do press releases.

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