Iron ore price claims its first mine

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From The OZ:

THE collapse in iron ore prices has claimed its first local victim — the Cairn Hill iron ore project in South Australia.

The operating company, Termite Resources, has been placed in to administration. Termite is owned 51 per cent by the ASX-listed IMX Resources.

…IMX’s Cairn Hill partner is China’s Taifeng Yuan Chuang International. Cairn Hill Mine is 55 kms south-east of Coober Pedy. Production started in December 2010.

Mine capacity is 1.7 million tonnes per annum of a magnetite-copper product.

And for interests sake, here is Gotti with the dummies take on the end of the super cycle.

About the author
David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal. He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.