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The hedge fund manager announced a new bearish stance on the iron ore sector, saying Greenlight was betting against a number of stocks.
While mining investment has fallen 62% since September 2012, output by the industry has grown 32% in the same time (and output by the iron ore sector is up 70%) – well beyond the 10% increase in Australia's GDP.
While the iron ore sector went from representing 1.1% of GDP to its current share of 3.9%, the coal industry went from 1.1% of GDP to now representing about 1.4%.
Tony Abbott has sought to reassure wary colleagues and big mining companies that any government-backed inquiry into Australia's iron ore sector would be a fact-finding mission rather than an attempt to regulate the market.
But even the iron ore sector saw slowing growth and is coming off the boil quickly – quarterly growth of just 1.7% compared with the 5.6% growth observed in the March 2014 quarter.
Gordon Moffat, director of the Eurofer steel makers' association, said Monday that the joint venture would create "an unacceptable concentration" of power in the iron ore sector, effectively creating "a duopoly with the iron ore market for the entire world in the hands of just two companies".
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Thanks to its size and unusually high quality, some experts say that whoever controls Simandou may dominate the world's iron-ore sector for a generation.After a decade of wrangling, Guinea has now struck a deal worth $20 billion with Rio Tinto, a British-Australian metals and mining giant, to exploit the southern half of the deposit.
Tony Cross, market analyst at Trustnet Direct, said: The big losers are focused on the mining sector – iron ore prices are slipping back and this is calling into question the idea that the recent rally was anything more than a short term correction – as we've said before, nothing is changing in terns of the underlying market, production remains intense and demand is lacklustre.
An iron Pickaxe can mine Coal Ore, Diamond Ore, Iron Ore, Redstone Ore, Gold Ore and Emerald Ore.
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The biggest sectors are iron ore and coal, with Japan accounting for 27% of shipments of those commodities.
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