However, this increase in expenses will be more than offset by higher realized prices of produced metal ores and metals.

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Oh, they would have opened up everything: the metal ores and minerals, the countless deposits of coal.

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Metal ores and coal account for 40% of the country's export receipts.

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The newcomers will shrink China's market share by 15%, says Dudley Kingsnorth of IMCOA. The only existing producer outside Asia not dependent on Chinese ores is Silmet, a rare-metal firm in Estonia, which says it is now besieged by eager customers.

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