{"id":19881,"date":"2026-08-21T06:49:58","date_gmt":"2026-08-21T06:49:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/metarexllcco.com\/?p=19881"},"modified":"2026-08-24T06:54:51","modified_gmt":"2026-08-24T06:54:51","slug":"global-major-miners-prepare-the-next-wave-of-iron-ore-supply","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/metarexllcco.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/21\/global-major-miners-prepare-the-next-wave-of-iron-ore-supply\/","title":{"rendered":"Global | Major miners prepare the next wave of iron ore supply"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/indiandefencereview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/large-open-pit-iron-ore-mine.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.6500405768150321;width:305px;height:auto\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-1 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"color:#852800\">Rio Tinto, BHP and Fortescue are expanding or replacing capacity to protect volumes and reduce costs. Rio\u2019s Simandou project targets full production in the second half of 2028, while BHP plans to lift WAIO capacity above 305 million tpy. Fortescue increased Blacksmith\u2019s resource estimate to 615 million tonnes. Future demand growth is increasingly expected from India and Southeast Asia rather than China alone.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-full is-resized\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"567\" height=\"189\" src=\"https:\/\/metarexllcco.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/METAREX-NEWS-AGENTS-LOGO1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-18968\" style=\"width:143px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/metarexllcco.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/METAREX-NEWS-AGENTS-LOGO1.jpg 567w, https:\/\/metarexllcco.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/METAREX-NEWS-AGENTS-LOGO1-400x133.jpg 400w, https:\/\/metarexllcco.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/METAREX-NEWS-AGENTS-LOGO1-430x143.jpg 430w, https:\/\/metarexllcco.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/METAREX-NEWS-AGENTS-LOGO1-150x50.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 567px) 100vw, 567px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rio Tinto, BHP and Fortescue are expanding or replacing capacity to protect volumes and reduce costs. Rio\u2019s Simandou project targets<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[82],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"rttpg_featured_image_url":null,"rttpg_author":{"display_name":"Author","author_link":"https:\/\/metarexllcco.com\/index.php\/author\/ghazizadeh\/"},"rttpg_comment":0,"rttpg_category":"<a href=\"https:\/\/metarexllcco.com\/index.php\/category\/general\/\" rel=\"category tag\">General<\/a>","rttpg_excerpt":"Rio Tinto, BHP and Fortescue are expanding or replacing capacity to protect volumes and reduce costs. Rio\u2019s Simandou project targets","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/metarexllcco.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/metarexllcco.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/metarexllcco.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metarexllcco.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metarexllcco.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19881"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/metarexllcco.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19881\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19883,"href":"https:\/\/metarexllcco.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19881\/revisions\/19883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/metarexllcco.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metarexllcco.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metarexllcco.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}