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Iron ore market in Western Australia’s mid-west region.

The massive growth of the Chinese and other Asian economies in the past decade and the increasing global demand for minerals and commodities, particularly iron ore, is a major driver of increasing expenditure on minerals exploration and record investment in mining and minerals processing projects in Australia.

Australia’s iron ore industry is ideally placed to meet the surging demand by the steel industries of China, Japan and Korea for additional supplies of high-quality iron ore.

Virtually all of Australia’s iron ore is mined in Western Australia (around 97 per cent), with most of this product being exported from the Pilbara region.

The economic development of Western Australia's mid-west region is being driven by the exporting opportunities of a range of iron ore projects.

Some of the existing and prospective iron ore miners in WA's mid-west region, that might benefit from OPR's supply chain, are:

• Accent Resources www.accentresources.com.au

• Alchemy Resources www.alchemyresources.com.au

• Asia Iron Holdings Limited

• Atlas Iron Limited www.atlasiron.com.au

• Base Iron Ltd www.baseiron.com.au

• Crosslands Resources www.crosslands.com.au

• Emergent Resources Limited www.emergentresources.com.au

• Ferrowest Ltd www.ferrowest.com.au

• Gindalbie Metals Ltd www.gindalbie.com.au

• Giralia Resources www.giralia.com.au