The Future Of Australia's Iron Ore Exports with Jack Colreavy - ABSI Episode 23

Australia is the undisputed king of iron ore thanks to hematite iron ore, better known as direct shipping ore (DSO). The problem is that Australian and global reserves of high-grade DSO are fast approaching depletion.

This week, Senior Corporate Finance Associate, Jack Colreavy CFA explores what the future holds for iron ore exports, particularly in Australia.

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Australia is the undisputed king of Iron Ore. There's no argument around that. We are by far the world's largest exporter. And to put it into context, Australia exported 342 billion, that's in US dollars, worth of goods in 2021. And Iron Ore comprised 117 billion or 34 percent of it. So it's a critical mineral.

The problem is that most of the iron ore comes from hematite reserves, which are starting to deplete and exhaust themselves. So where does the future come from? And the answer is magnetite Iron Ore. Now, while magnetite has a much lower grade naturally, it possesses different properties, which enable it to be processed into a much higher grade product, which possesses a lot less impurities.

Now the steel smelters love this because they then use less Coal and therefore there are less emissions when they're producing the steel from the magnetite Iron Ore. So really the future of Iron Ore is in this green Iron Ore that is magnetite.

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