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Iron ore is the most important raw material for steel production. Its resources are found mainly in Australia, Brazil, China, India, Russia and the United States. Australia, China, Brazil and India alone, account for around 80 percent of the world total output.
According to statistics from the Metallurgical Mines'Association of China, global iron ore consumption in 2001 was over 1 billion tons. In 2010, it nearly doubled to more than 1.8 billion tons.
據中國冶金礦山企業協會統計，全球鐵礦石消費在2001年超過了10億噸。在2010年,它幾乎翻了一番，超過18億噸。
China contributed to 90 percent of the increase. The country has become the world's largest iron ore consumer, and the world's second-largest producer. But China's iron ore resources are scattered, of low grade and with a high cost of extraction. It relies highly on imports from other countries.
全球鐵礦石消費增量中,90%來自中國。中國已成為世界上最大的鐵礦石消費國和第二大生產國。但是我國的鐵礦石資源分散、品位低、開采成本高，中國的鐵礦石仍然高度依賴進口。
Last year, it reported 440 million tonnes in output, 740 million tonnes in imports and 1.05 billion tonnes in consumption. Most of the imports are from Brazil's Vale, Australia's Rio Tinto, BHP and FMG.
據報道，我國去年生產鐵礦石4.4億噸，進口7.4億噸，消費10.5億噸。中國進口的鐵礦石大部分來自巴西的淡水河谷，澳大利亞力拓、必和必拓與FMG。
