Mt Gibson: Iron ore grade discounts structural

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Via The West:

Mt Gibson Iron boss Jim Beyer says the wide price spread across ore with varying iron ore grades is here to stay.

Speaking after the miner released its March quarter report, Mr Beyer said while there would be “pinching and swelling” based on seasonal demand and short-term, city-specific policy changes in China, the market would not return to the days of a 5 per cent discount for 58 per cent ore versus the benchmark 62 per cent price.

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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.