List of the largest iron ore producers
The list of the largest iron ore producers contains tables and graphics with precise information on the subject of iron ore .
overview
In 2011, the People's Republic of China (1.2 billion tons), Australia (480 million tons) and Brazil (390 million tons) were the three most important producing countries for iron ore, which together accounted for 73.9 percent of the 2, 8 billion tons . Important mining areas in Europe are in Russia , Ukraine and Sweden .
The economically minable reserves were estimated by the United States Geological Survey (USGS) in 2011 at 170 billion tons worldwide. If production remained the same, iron ore could still be extracted for about 61 years. The largest stocks are in Australia (20.6%), Brazil (17.1%) and Russia (14.7%). Large parts of the Australian production are exported to China. In the Amazon rainforest of Brazil, in the Serra dos Carajás, is the largest iron ore deposit in the world with an estimated 17 billion tons of strip iron ore, which is extracted in a huge open pit.
In the non-European countries, but also in Russia and the Ukraine, predominantly higher-quality ores are mined and offered more cheaply than by producers in the European Union . As a result, almost all of the former producing countries in the EU, for example Luxembourg (1982), Great Britain (1993), Spain (1997) and France (2003), stopped their production or, as in Germany, reduced it considerably. In Liberia , too , which was one of the largest producing countries in the world until the outbreak of civil war in 1989, mining ceased in 1993.
Demand has increased sharply since the beginning of the 21st century, as the People's Republic of China, several countries in East Asia and the USA increased their steel production. The resulting shortage on the raw material market (ore, steel scrap) led to an increase in world market prices.
Production, reserves and stock base
The United States Geological Survey offers the following definition of this: The reserve base is that part of an identified resource that meets the specific minimum physical and chemical criteria for current mining and production practices, including those for grade , Quality , thickness and depth . The reserves are that part of the supply base that could be economically extracted or produced at a given time. The term does not have to mean that extraction systems are installed and working. Reserves only contain exploitable substances.
The countries with the highest production and the highest reserves are listed in millions of tons. The publication of data on the stock base was discontinued in 2009.
rank | country | Mining (iron ore) |
Reserves (raw ore) |
Reserves (iron content) |
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1. |
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1,200 | 23,000 | 7,200 |
2. |
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480 | 35,000 | 17,000 |
3. |
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390 | 29,000 | 16,000 |
4th |
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240 | 7,000 | 4,500 |
5. |
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100 | 25,000 | 14,000 |
6th |
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80 | 6,000 | 2,100 |
7th |
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55 | 1,000 | 650 |
8th. |
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54 | 6,900 | 2,100 |
9. |
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37 | 6,300 | 2,300 |
10. |
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30th | 2,500 | 1,400 |
11. |
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25th | 3,500 | 2,200 |
12. |
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24 | 3,000 | 1,000 |
13. |
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16 | 4,000 | 2,400 |
14th |
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14th | 700 | 400 |
15th |
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11 | 1,100 | 700 |
Other countries | 50 | 12,000 | 6,000 | |
world | 2,800 | 170,000 | 80,000 |
advancement
By country
All figures relate to the states within their current borders.
Rank (2016) |
country | 1970 | 1980 | 1990 | 2000 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2016 |
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1. |
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43,690 | 112,580 | 179,344 | 223,950 | 707.073 | 824.011 | 880.171 | 1,071,555 | 1,280,893 |
2. |
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51.189 | 99.160 | 109.166 | 176,300 | 299.038 | 342,435 | 394.069 | 433,452 | 858.025 |
3. |
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36,381 | 113.024 | 152.302 | 208,830 | 354,674 | 351.200 | 331,000 | 372,300 | 424.200 |
4th |
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31,366 | 40,682 | 53,702 | 80,762 | 213.246 | 212.960 | 218,639 | 208.111 | 192.081 |
5. |
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91,451 | 114,477 | 110.494 | 86,630 | 104,953 | 99.272 | 92,050 | 99.060 | 101,000 |
6th |
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84,316 | 105,545 | 81,315 | 55,883 | 77,930 | 72,688 | 66,452 | 78,541 | 66,900 |
7th |
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9,192 | 25,738 | 30.291 | 33,707 | 42.101 | 48,983 | 55,313 | 58,709 | 66,456 |
8th. |
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47,458 | 48,753 | 36,688 | 36,740 | 33,158 | 32.102 | 31,669 | 37.001 | 48,990 |
9. |
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10 | 590 | 2,611 | 12.208 | 35.195 | 38,200 | 34,034 | 34,500 | 48,000 |
10. |
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91,534 | 70,727 | 55,458 | 63,089 | 52,500 | 53,600 | 26,700 | 49,500 | 40,800 |
11. |
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19,275 | 24,129 | 23,289 | 16,157 | 19,582 | 21,486 | 46,248 | 50,190 | 35,417 |
12. |
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31,518 | 27,174 | 19,877 | 20,557 | 24,714 | 23,888 | 17,677 | 25,292 | 31,843 |
13. |
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4,812 | 8,149 | 9,209 | 11,326 | 16,540 | 17,709 | 17,693 | 21,210 | 20,400 |
14th |
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9,103 | 8,936 | 11,416 | 11,069 | 11,815 | 10,968 | 10,275 | 11,109 | 13,268 |
15th |
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11,265 | 8,960 | 7,800 | 8,729 | 8,818 | 9,316 | 8,242 | 9.130 | 14,619 |
16. |
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22,070 | 13,681 | 20,240 | 17,353 | 19,632 | 19,332 | 14,207 | 14,331 | 11,000 |
17th |
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2,671 | 2,707 | 6,155 | 4,076 | 4,550 | 3,990 | 4,170 | 5,188 | 7,800 |
18th |
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12,585 | 5,870 | 3,307 | 4.143 | 6.277 | 6,348 | 5,435 | 6,348 | 7,663 |
19th |
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20th |
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3,800 | ||||||||
21st |
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142 | 3,160 | 2,298 | 2,692 | 1,724 | 2,020 | 2,093 | 2,439 | 3,496 |
22nd |
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0 | 0 | 0 | 300 | 1,200 | 1,200 | 1,800 | 1,900 | 3,154 |
23. |
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3,997 | 3,200 | 2,301 | 1,859 | 2.153 | 2,033 | 2.002 | 2,069 | 2,777 |
24. |
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0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 265 | 1,387 | 1,379 | 3,203 | 2.210 |
25th |
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8,000 | 8,200 | 9,500 | 5,000 | 5.126 | 5,316 | 4,955 | 5,000 | 2,000 |
26th |
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4,491 | 372 | 348 | 259 | 802 | 982 | 1,470 | 3,466 | 1.914 |
27. |
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4,008 | 3,883 | 2,081 | 470 | 630 | 746 | 896 | 3,105 | 1,758 |
28. |
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1,880 | 2,286 | 2,100 | 363 | 2,944 | 2,667 | 2,727 | 1,401 | 1,752 |
29 |
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22,294 | 18,250 | 3,981 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1,522 |
30th |
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451 | 1,865 | 2,432 | 2,500 | 2,185 | 1,811 | 1,780 | 1,800 | 1,500 |
31. |
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2,863 | 3,454 | 2,930 | 1,645 | 1,982 | 2,077 | 1,307 | 1,474 | 945 |
32. |
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716 | ||||||||
33. |
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5,953 | 1999 | 168 | 462 | 422 | 455 | 364 | 390 | 514 |
34. |
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635 | 619 | 298 | 163 | 291 | 366 | 455 | 513 | 454 |
35. |
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0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 126 | 286 | 320 | 402 | 432 |
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23 | 84 | 132 | 100 | 1,555 | 1,710 | 616 | 977 | 0 | |
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6.091 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
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56,805 | 29,200 | 8,726 | 31 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
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12,018 | 916 | 53 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
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5,722 | 605 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
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7,051 | 9.227 | 3,030 | 75 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
According to ore grade
The three leading producing countries
World funding
The following table shows the world production of iron ore in millions of tons.
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See also
literature
- Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag: Fischer-Weltalmanach. Figures-data-facts , 1960 ff.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Handelsblatt: John F. Jungclaussen: The secret methods of the raw materials industry. , dated February 7, 2012
- ↑ Focus: Brazil - New Momentum , from December 1, 2010
- ↑ United States Geological Survey: World Mine Production and Reserves (PDF; 29 kB)
- ^ A b British Geological Survey: World mineral statistics archive
- ↑ World Steel Association: Statistics archive ( Memento of the original from February 12, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ United States Geological Survey: World Production (PDF; 298 kB)