Exports of iron ore - Australia's most lucrative export - will also trend lower due to falling steel demand in China as the country pivots away from investment-led growth, the report said.
Australia was by far the country exporting the largest amount of iron ore worldwide in 2023.
Australia's iron ore exports are expected to earn more than A$100 billion (US$76 billion) per year for the next half decade as miners like BHP Group, Rio Tinto and Fortescue dig out more iron ...
Iron ore aside, goods exports to China fell 40% year-over-year in Q1 (and 10% to the rest of the world). As such, iron ore accounted for 38% of Australian goods exports and 77% of …
Iron ore exports reached a record high of $10.9 billion, accounting for 36 per cent of Australia's total exports, according to figures released today by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS).. Total exports increased by $1.8 billion, or 6 per cent, to $30.5 billion in October 2020.
This section shows exports and imports data at subnational level for Australia. Click any date in the line plot, any subnational region in the geomap, or any product, destination or origin country to explore the exports or imports behavior of Australia over time.
In 2022, Australia exported $87.9B in Iron Ore. The main destinations of Australia exports on Iron Ore were China ($72.5B), Japan ($6.49B), South Korea ($5.15B), Chinese …
From May to June 2020, exports of iron ore (lumps and fines) increased by $757 million or 8 per cent to $9.92 billion, the highest export value on record. This …
This pushed the total exports of iron ore for 2019-20 to over $100 billion representing more than a quarter of Australia's total goods exported for this period. China was the main market for Australian iron ore exports accounting for 87 per cent of all iron ore exported in 2019-20.
An Ironclad Economy With over 30 percent of the planet's resources of iron ore, Australia leads the world in iron ore production. Iron ore is Australia's largest and most valuable commodity export, with export earnings in 2021-2022 of $133 billion.
Australian iron ore faces growing competition in the emerging green iron market from regions that produce higher-grade ore better suited to non-coal-based steelmaking.
Australia's resources and energy exports are forecast to rise from $310 billion in 2020-21 to a record $334 billion in 2021-22 and remain high at about $300 billion in 2022-23. Iron ore exports are estimated to have risen 50% to a record $149 billion in 2020-21 (Chart), underpinned by surging prices amid strong Chinese demand and supply issues in Brazil.
Iron ore continued to be the lead mineral export commodity for Australia in 2021, worth nearly $155 billion, up from $117 billion in 2020, and comprising more than 52% of total mineral export earnings 5. In 2021, Australia was also the world's largest producer of iron ore, providing 36% of world supply and with the largest share of global ...
Australia's exports to China surged to record highs in March as the Asian giant sucked in more iron for its steel industry and lowered barriers to thermal coal shipments amid thawing diplomatic ...
With the global iron ore market entering a period of major oversupply later this decade, and demand in China in decline, and a steel technology shift accelerating, Australia needs to seriously think about what its iron …
Timeline: Australian Iron ore at A$100bn. According to figures from the Australian Government's Resources Energy Quarterly report, iron ore recently became the first commodity to exceed A$100bn in export value.
Almost all (98%) iron ore is used in steelmaking. Iron ore is mined in about 50 countries. The seven largest of these producing countries account for about three-quarters of total world production. Australia and Brazil together dominate the world's iron ore exports, each having about one-third of total exports.
Western Australia's (WA) iron ore exports from the key Pilbara ports of Port Hedland and Dampier hit a high for 2022 in December, with a new yearly record set for the multi-user Port Hedland facility.
Most of Australia's iron ore production is exported, predominantly to Asia. After rapid growth in the past decade, the main export market for Australia's iron ore is now China (almost 70 per cent of iron ore exports in 2010), with Japan and Korea importing most of the balance (Graph 2).
Exports of Iron Ore & Concentrates in Australia averaged 3097.37 AUD Million from 1988 until 2024, reaching an all time high of 17637.00 AUD Million in June of 2021 and a …
AUSTRALIA IRON ORE SUPPLIERS. AUSTRALIA MINERAL RESOURCES EXPORT IRON ORE, AUSTRALIA LEADING IRON ORE EXPORT DESTINATION We continue to progress important growth opportunities and projects, to bring to market materials critical to the transition to a low-carbon economy: copper, lithium and iron ore, Metallurgical coal, …
The export ban was a major disincentive to iron ore exploration over the next 20 years, but geologists knew there were significant ore deposits in Western Australia and the state Labor government began assessing these finds in the 1950s.
Iron ore exports reached a record high of $10.9 billion, accounting for 36 per cent of Australia's total exports, according to figures released today by the Australian …
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The largest market for Australian iron ore, China, has experienced a slump in its property market, and this may change the demand for iron ore exports in the future. Iron ore's value to the ...
The growth in Australia's iron ore industry continued at an impressive rate, and by 1990 total Australian iron ore exports had reached around 105 Mt/a of direct shipping ore (DSO), primarily from the high-grade Brockman iron formation.
In 2018, Australia's resources export industry generated AUS$248 billion in revenue with coal alone bringing in AUS$66 billion. In this piece, we map the biggest and most important ports for the island's mining economy. ... As a consequence the port saw iron ore exports total 9.2 million tonnes in the 2010 financial year.
The forecast data spreadsheet was updated on 19 April 2023 with revised Australian production figures for iron ore. Resources and energy quarterly: March 2023 [pdf 6.67 ] ... Lower prices projected over the outlook period will see Australia's iron ore export earnings (in real terms) moderate from $121 billion in 2022–23 to around $100 ...
In the financial year 2023, the export value of iron ore from Australia reached 124 billion Australian dollars, making it the country's leading energy and resources export commodity.
Promising new green steelmaking techniques won't work with our main iron ore exports. We must future proof this key industry.
In recent months, shorter-term supply disruptions to Australian iron ore exports have also affected the global iron ore market. The most notable of these disruptions was Tropical Cyclone Veronica in late March, which reduced large firms' iron ore exports from Western Australian ports by close to 25 million tonnes (around 3 per cent of Australia's annual …
A record $14 billion of iron ore was exported in March, up $2.5 billion from February. Copper ore also made a significant contribution, up $286 million to $745 …
Australia's biggest iron ore exporter shipped 16 per cent more over the past three months, in a fresh sign its most important division has turned a corner.