Daily iron ore price update (more Vale troubles)

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Iron ore prices for May 21, 2019:

Spot up. Paper up. Steel up. Vale down:

Brazilian mining company Vale has suspended freight transport on a portion of its Vitoria-Minas railroad as a precautionary measure against the risk of a breach at the Sul Superior tailings dam, which is connected to the closed Gongo Soco iron ore mine.

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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.