Iron ore prices have been buoyed in 2024 on China’s strong iron ore imports. Project Blue reports that the country’s iron ore imports were up 4.9 percent y-o-y for the first 10 months of 2024.

In February last Or. M. Schlenker, Syndic of the Saarbriicken Chamber of Commerce, showed that the extraction of iron ore in the Briey basin amounted (calculated by iron contents) to 28 per cent ...