Iron ore suppliers traditionally hold annual talks with steelmakers to fix benchmark prices for the 12 months from April 1, the start of the financial year in Japan.

过去铁矿石供应商与钢铁制造商从4月1号，也就是日本钢铁企业新财政年度开始第一日起，协商为期12个月的固定基准价格。

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Triassic strata hold effect on ore forming of the whole area, and can supply some ore-forming substance for deposits there.

三叠系地层对区内成矿作用的影响是全局性的，具有为全区矿床的形成提供部分物质来源的能力。

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The Nimba mountains, straddling the borders of Liberia, Guinea and Ivory Coast, hold one of the world's richest deposits of iron ore.

宁巴山脉地跨利比里亚、几内亚和象牙海岸的边界，有着世界最丰富的铁矿储藏量。

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You'll have to wait 12 months to get your hands on one of its mining dump trucks, the ones that can hold up to 400 tons of ore.

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As long as that continues then steel demand will hold up and thus so will iron ore prices.

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Raw materials plays like copper, iron ore, even coal are suspect unless commodity quotes hold at currently extended levels.

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