Canadian iron ore production down 1.5 percent in April

Friday, 26 June 2026 17:33:38 (GMT+3)   |   San Diego

According to Statistics Canada, Canada produced 5,002,749 mt of iron ore concentrates in April 2026, down 1.5 percent from March 2026 and down 6.8 percent from April 2025.

Canadian iron ore producers shipped 3,237,317 mt of iron ore concentrates in April, down 6.1 percent from March and down 23.3 percent from April 2025.

Closing inventories of iron ore concentrates at Canadian producers totaled 7,139,490 mt in April, up 1.8 percent from March and down 33.1 percent from April 2025.

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I graduated from University of Illinois at Chicago with a B.S. in Finance, and also have Masters degree from Northeastern Illinois University in Bilingual Bicultural Education and a Masters from Moody Bible Institute in Divinity. I have been in the steel industry since 2019, focusing on long products.  I now write on finished longs in Mexico, and cover market analysis and dynamics in North America.

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