Iron ore · 58% Fe grade
58 Fe Iron Ore Supplier
58% Fe states a commercial band, not a purchase specification. A lower headline figure is not by itself a defect and a higher one is not automatically a better buy: what decides the comparison is the assay basis, the gangue the iron is carried with, the moisture the tonnage is priced on, the sizing, and the terms the quotation is built from.
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Fit, alternatives and selection logic
When a 58% Fe offer works — and when a higher band is genuinely cheaper
A band is a starting point, not a verdict. The figure tells you how much iron the material carries and nothing about what it carries the iron with, how wet it is, or what the quotation actually covers. Use the three states below before you decide the lower band is or is not the right purchase.
A lower band is a sound purchase when your plant is designed around it or blends to a target burden, and when the gangue it arrives with sits inside your limits. In this state the enquiry is written in the same fields as any other — gangue limits, moisture basis, sizing and method, sampling basis and destination — and the figure is simply one of them.
- Burden or blend design already accommodates the band
- Gangue limits stated from your process and being met
- Moisture and priced mass basis agreed before comparison
This is the state most 58% Fe enquiries are actually in. Two offers look different on the headline number and very different on price, but neither states the moisture basis or the priced mass, so nobody can say which is cheaper per unit of iron. Convert both to a dry basis, then to a cost per unit of contained iron, before treating either as the better buy.
- Headline figures compared without a stated basis
- Moisture value or basis missing from one or both offers
- Price quoted per wet tonne on one side and per dry tonne on the other
The band stops being a candidate when the constraint is set by something it does not express — a maximum alumina or phosphorus limit your route cannot absorb, a slag-volume limit tied to your furnace, or a sizing your agglomeration step will not accept. In these cases the price advantage is irrelevant, because the material does not clear acceptance at any price.
- A gangue limit is breached that your route cannot correct
- Sizing falls outside what your receiving step handles
- Raising throughput to win the same iron breaks another constraint
A lower figure is not a defect. Grade bands sit on a commercial scale, not a quality scale. A 58% Fe material that meets your gangue, sizing and moisture schedule is not inferior to a 62% or 65% offer that misses it — it is a different purchase that happens to clear your acceptance. Equally, a higher figure does not license the assumption that the material will perform better in your plant, because the impurities and the physical form are set independently of the headline number.
Related alternatives, grouped by the open question
These are the pages that sit closest to a 58% Fe enquiry. Each one is a different decision rather than a substitute, so pick the group that matches what is still unresolved in your requirement.
Where the mineralogy or the physical form itself is the open question.
- goethite iron ore supplier A hydrated iron oxide where the LOI is high, so the wet-to-dry relationship carries more weight than it does on a low-LOI material.
- limonite iron ore supplier A mixed hydrated material with an inherently variable character — a case where lot-to-lot consistency is itself a procurement question.
Where the sizing or the preparation state rather than the iron content is the deciding field.
Where a stated band rather than a mineralogical name is what your process actually constrains.
- 62 fe iron ore supplier The band immediately above. Whether it substitutes is decided by your impurity limits and penalty schedule, not by the four-point gap.
- 63.5 fe iron ore supplier A higher band again, where the gangue the iron is carried with often differs as much as the figure does.
- 65 fe iron ore supplier The higher band, where a lower gangue load is the usual commercial argument — and where the price basis is usually set differently.
Delivered cost per unit of iron
Place two offers on one basis before you choose
Enter what each offer actually states and what you actually pay. The tool converts both to a dry-tonne basis and derives a cost per unit of contained iron, then flags every field where the two offers were not determined the same way. It publishes no price, no freight and no benchmark of its own.
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Scope: a comparison of the basis two offers were determined on. It states no quality ranking, no supplier preference, no availability position and no market price — every figure it uses was entered by you.
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Your comparison travels with the enquiry exactly as you entered it. Anything still unstated stays on the record as an open question rather than being normalised into an assumed value. Price on request.
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What the figure does not carry
Five fields a band leaves entirely open
The iron figure fixes one number. The fields below are established separately, each by its own method on its own basis, and at a lower band they carry proportionally more of the decision because more material moves per unit of iron won.
| Field | Why it matters more here | Unit / basis | Verification method | Where the limit comes from | Action |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fe content | It sets how much material must be handled, shipped and fed to win a given tonnage of iron. | % — dry or wet, declared | Assay by the method your contract names | Your acceptance limit | State the figure and the basis it is reported on |
| SiO2 | Loads the slag and raises the energy and flux needed per tonne of iron produced. | % — dry basis as tested | Assay per the agreed method | Set by your process | Enter your limit explicitly |
| Al2O3 | Changes slag viscosity and, at higher levels, can destabilise furnace operation. | % — dry basis as tested | Assay per the agreed method | Set by your process | Enter your limit explicitly |
| P (phosphorus) | Carries into the metal and is hard to remove downstream, so it constrains the route you can use. | % — dry basis as tested | Assay per the agreed method | Set by your steelmaking route | Enter the maximum explicitly |
| S (sulphur) | Route-dependent, and more tightly constrained where the process is sensitive to sulphur in the metal. | % — dry basis as tested | Assay per the agreed method | Set by your steelmaking route | Enter the maximum explicitly |
| Moisture | Decides the priced mass, and more wet tonnes are needed per unit of iron at a lower figure. | % — as received or as determined | Determination per a named moisture method | Contract wording defines the adjustment | State basis plus method |
| LOI | Indicates mass lost on heating — higher in hydrated material, which changes yield per wet tonne. | % — determination basis stated | Determination per the named method | Project or plant requirement | State requirement or mark it open |
| Size distribution | Governs handling, and whether the receiving step can accept the material without further preparation. | mm with stated cut points | Screening or laser method, named | Agreed against your receiving process | State distribution plus method |
| Sampling basis | Decides whether the assay is accepted at your hold point rather than argued about there. | Method and sampling frequency | Standards-based lot sampling regime | Purchaser and supplier agree the basis | Name the sampling basis |
No figures published. This page states no iron content, impurity value, moisture level, size range or tolerance for any material. Every field above depends on the deposit, the product form and the lot, and each must be established by a named method on a stated basis in your own enquiry.
Standards that would carry the verification
Two standards do most of the work behind any iron figure: one for how the lot sample is drawn, one for how the iron content is determined. Naming both in the contract is what makes a figure reproducible between the offer and your receipt.
These routes explain what each standard covers and where its scope ends. Neither substitutes for the edition your contract cites, and neither implies that any material meets them.
Quality, testing and documentation
What each document answers — and what it leaves open
Documents are named in the enquiry rather than assumed. Each one below answers a distinct question, and none of them stands in for your contract's acceptance basis.
| Requested evidence | The question it answers | Who supplies / verifies | When required | What stays a project decision |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Certificate of analysis, per lot | What the lot actually contains, measured against the elements your process limits. | Issued against the agreed assay method; the issuing laboratory is confirmed per enquiry. | At the enquiry stage, as the basis for comparison. | Which elements are reported, and to what method scope, remains yours to specify. |
| Moisture determination report | How the wet and dry tonnage reconcile, which is what the price basis rests on. | Issued per a named moisture method; confirm it travels with the lot. | Before quantity and price are compared. | The method and its acceptance depend on your contract wording. |
| Size distribution report | Whether the material suits the process step it was specified for. | Issued per the agreed method; confirm which cut points are reported. | Before the material is committed to a route. | Cut points and tolerances are yours to set, not to assume. |
| Sampling and inspection record | Whether the assay will be accepted at your hold point rather than disputed there. | Issued against the agreed sampling standard and any appointed inspection party. | Agreed at enquiry, not at the port. | Whether a third-party inspection party is appointed remains a project decision. |
| Origin and shipping documents | Customs clearance, and any origin requirement your market imposes. | Issued per shipment. | Before dispatch. | Relevant only where your project or jurisdiction imposes an origin requirement. |
This page publishes no stock position, availability statement, lead time, shipping schedule, mine or mill ownership, or certification claim for any material. Every row above is a question to be confirmed per enquiry.
Gates to clear before a lower-band lot is traded
- 1Gangue gateAt a lower figure the material carries more gangue per unit of iron, so the impurity limits are checked against your process before the figure is considered.
- 2Basis gateThe iron, moisture and price figures each carry a stated basis before any cost comparison is attempted.
- 3Contained-iron gateOffers are placed on one dry-tonne basis and compared per unit of iron, not per gross tonne.
- 4Sampling gateThe sampling regime and any witnessing party are agreed at enquiry, so the assay is defensible at receipt.
- 5Blend gateWhere the requirement is met by blending, the ratio and the blended-figure tolerance are stated rather than left to the receiving yard.
- 6Document gateEach document is named in the enquiry and confirmed against what the route will actually issue.
Certification limits: this section describes document types and their verification roles. It makes no claim about which certificates Noor Deira Steel holds, which party issued any prior report, or what any future lot will be certified to.
Application and industry decision paths
Where a lower band changes what you must specify
A lower figure shifts work onto the steps around the furnace rather than into it. These are the related process and sector routes, and what each one changes in your acceptance criteria.
Blast furnace burden
- Operating condition
- A furnace burden where the gangue carried with the iron sets the slag volume and the coke rate.
- What shifts in the specification
- At a lower figure, the silica and alumina load per tonne of iron rises, so slag-volume and flux planning move to the centre of the requirement.
- Why routes are not interchangeable
- A burden designed around a higher band cannot simply be fed a lower one without re-checking the slag balance and the energy per tonne of iron.
Direct reduction (DRI)
- Operating condition
- Reduction of ore to metallic iron without melting, where the ore's behaviour during reduction governs.
- What shifts in the specification
- Gangue content and reducibility become governing, and a lower figure tends to mean more material per unit of iron through the reactor.
- Why routes are not interchangeable
- A direct reduction route is far less tolerant of a burden change than a sinter route, so the specification cannot be carried over between them.
Steel production
- Operating condition
- Feed into a steelmaking chain, where residual elements and consistency affect the finished product.
- What shifts in the specification
- Phosphorus and sulphur limits tighten, because the material entering the chain at a lower figure carries proportionally more of both.
- Why routes are not interchangeable
- Steelmaking acceptance is set by the finished product specification, not by the iron figure on the ore.
Pellet plants
- Operating condition
- Plants converting a fine feed into pellets for internal use or external sale.
- What shifts in the specification
- Feed consistency between shipments matters more than the mean figure, because a pellet plant's output grade follows its input grade.
- Why routes are not interchangeable
- Variance across lots is the procurement question here, not the band on any single offer.
Fines and sintering
- Operating condition
- Fine material fed to sintering or blended before agglomeration, where the blend decides the burden.
- What shifts in the specification
- The blend ratio and the tolerance on the blended figure become the fields to agree, rather than any single offer's band.
- Why routes are not interchangeable
- A fines requirement is specified by blend behaviour and chemistry, not by the figure of one component in the mix.
GCC markets and destination planning
Where the band lands changes the paperwork, not the mineralogy
A resolved basis travels the same way to every destination. What changes is the place of delivery, the customs route, the terms the quotation has to reflect and, at this band, whether the material is consumed directly or blended on arrival.
United Arab EmiratesA 58% Fe requirement landing in the UAE is often blended at the receiving yard rather than charged straight through, so name the place the blend happens and whether the consignee or a toll processor owns the entry.iron ore supplier UAE 
Saudi ArabiaWhere the receiving plant mixes a lower band with a higher one to hold a target burden, the enquiry should state the blend ratio and the tolerance on the blended figure, not the single-offer grade alone.iron ore supplier Saudi Arabia 
QatarA lower-band offer into Qatar is usually judged on the delivered cost per unit of iron rather than the headline figure, which makes the moisture basis and the priced mass the fields to fix first.iron ore supplier Qatar 
KuwaitShort-sea movements into Shuwaikh and Shuaiba leave little room to re-negotiate at discharge, so the gangue limits and the moisture determination should be agreed in writing before the vessel loads.iron ore supplier Kuwait 
BahrainConsignments into Khalifa Bin Salman Port frequently feed a mainland consumer that is itself blending, so the receiving place — not the port — is the point the gangue schedule has to satisfy.iron ore supplier Bahrain 
OmanSohar and Duqm requirements at this band are usually consumable feed for an industrial zone rather than resale stock, so state the delivery term that reaches the zone and the assay basis your plant will receipt against.iron ore supplier Oman These are destination planning routes. They describe the logistics and documentation inputs each destination changes, and make no claim that Noor Deira Steel holds stock, a branch, a warehouse or a port presence in any market listed.
Commercial, logistics and availability inputs
What the quotation rests on — and what stays open
A quotation is only comparable when the inputs behind it are stated. Each row below names what an input changes and what remains unknown until it is confirmed.
| Quotation input | What it changes | What stays unknown until confirmed |
|---|---|---|
| Iron figure and its basis | Which material is being priced, and whether the figure is dry or as received. | Comparability itself — the largest single source of offers that cannot be lined up. |
| Gangue limits and basis | How much of the material is not iron, and on what measurement that was stated. | Process suitability, and the tonnage that must be handled per unit of iron won. |
| Moisture value and basis | Whether quantities and adjustments are on a wet or dry basis. | The effective dry tonnage, and therefore the cost per unit of contained iron. |
| Size distribution and method | Whether the material suits the receiving plant's process step as delivered. | Suitability until the distribution and the method behind it are known. |
| Product form | Whether the offer is lump, fines, concentrate or pellet feed — different decisions entirely. | Comparability, until the form is confirmed against your requirement. |
| Blend ratio, where applicable | How a lower band is combined with another to reach a target burden. | The blended figure, the variance around it and where it is measured. |
| Quantity and cadence | Whether the requirement is a single lot or a repeating programme. | The commercial structure and the shipment planning basis. |
| Destination port and Incoterm | Which carriage legs, duties and charges sit inside the quoted figure. | The delivered cost until the place and the term are named. |
What this page does not claim
- No price, benchmark, discount or premium is published.
- No stock position or availability is claimed for any material.
- No lead time, loading rate or shipping schedule is stated.
- No mine, mill, source origin or ownership is claimed.
- No certification, lab accreditation or project approval is claimed.
- No claim that a lower band is inferior, or that a higher one is better.
Ready to be quoted
Run the two offers through the comparison above and send the result with your enquiry. Everything still unstated travels with it as an open question rather than a silent assumption.
Grade and product links
Move to the band that matches your acceptance schedule
Each of these is a different purchase with its own typical chemistry and its own commercial basis. Use them to check a neighbouring band or to step back to the product cluster — not as substitutes for one another.
- iron ore supplier
- 62 fe iron ore supplier
- 63.5 fe iron ore supplier
- 65 fe iron ore supplier
- 66 fe iron ore concentrate supplier
Adjacent bands are bounded comparisons, not equivalents. Whether one substitutes for another is decided by your impurity limits, sizing, moisture basis and penalty schedule — not by the distance between the two figures.
A note on how bands are used
- A band is a commercial conventionIt narrows the iron figure into a tradable range. The tolerance around it is set buyer-seller in the contract, not by the label.
- Lower is not worseA material that clears your gangue, sizing and moisture schedule is fit for your plant regardless of which band it sits in.
- Higher is not automatically betterA higher figure can arrive with a different impurity profile and a different cost basis, and it may not suit the route you operate.
- Blending is a specification decisionWhere two bands are combined to hit a target, the ratio and its tolerance belong in the enquiry rather than at the receiving yard.
Expert insight
What most often decides a purchase at this band?
On a 58% Fe enquiry the iron figure is rarely what decides the outcome. Two offers will both quote a figure; what separates them is whether the basis behind it and the mass the price is quoted on are the same, and how much gangue each brings with it.
Before you accept a lower band
Work through these in order. Each is a question the offer has to answer, not one that can be inferred for you.
- 1Fix the basis firstA figure reported dry and one reported as received are different measurements. Establish the basis before either is treated as comparable.
- 2Convert to dry tonnesMoisture decides the priced mass. Until both offers sit on the same moisture basis, the tonnage each price covers is unknown.
- 3Value the iron, not the tonneCost per unit of contained iron rises as the figure falls. Compare on that basis rather than on price per gross tonne.
- 4Read the gangue before the gradeMore material moves per unit of iron at a lower band, so what the iron is carried with usually decides whether the purchase works.
- 5Check the handling costExtra tonnage carried, stored and fed is a real cost even when the material price looks lower. Confirm it against your own operating figures.
- 6Name the blend in the contractWhere the requirement is met by blending, put the ratio, the target figure and the tolerance in the enquiry rather than leaving them to the yard.
Source record
- Primary source
- ISO 3082 — Iron ores — Sampling and sample preparation procedures
- Direct source URL
- iso.org — ISO 3082
- Method
- Use the sampling standard to establish whether two offers rest on a comparable sample, because a figure is only decision-grade when the lot behind it was drawn representatively.
- Information date
- 2026-10-09
- Scope
- Sampling and sample preparation procedures for iron ores, used here to define what a reproducible assay depends on.
Limitations
- The sampling standard establishes how a sample is drawn; it does not establish iron content, impurity levels, moisture or sizing.
- A commercial band such as 58% Fe is not a purchase specification, and the tolerance around it remains buyer-seller specific.
- Cost per unit of iron is a comparison of bases. It is not a market price, and this page publishes none.
Evidence-led buyer advantages
How we take the guesswork out of a lower-band comparison
Each item starts from a real difficulty on a 58% Fe enquiry, states the practice that addresses it, and ends at the outcome it produces. None rests on a claim about stock, origin or price that this page cannot substantiate.
- Buyer concern
- Comparing gross tonnes at different figures
- What we do
- We place both offers on one dry-tonne basis and value the iron each actually contains before the numbers are lined up.
- Procurement outcome
- The cheaper offer is identified on contained iron rather than on the headline figure.
- Buyer concern
- A price quoted without a mass basis
- What we do
- Where a price is quoted per wet tonne and the moisture is unstated, it is flagged rather than converted on an assumption.
- Procurement outcome
- You see that the two quotations cover different tonnages, rather than discovering it at discharge.
- Buyer concern
- Gangue treated as a footnote to the figure
- What we do
- Impurity limits are asked for against your process, because at this band the gangue usually decides suitability more than the figure does.
- Procurement outcome
- The material is accepted or rejected on a limit you set, not on a default.
- Buyer concern
- The assumption that a lower figure is inferior
- What we do
- We treat the band as one field in an acceptance schedule and never as a quality ranking in either direction.
- Procurement outcome
- A band that clears your schedule is judged to clear it, on the same terms as any other.
- Buyer concern
- Sizing quoted without a method
- What we do
- The distribution and the method behind it are requested together, since the receiving step depends on both.
- Procurement outcome
- The material suits the process it was specified for rather than being found unsuitable on arrival.
- Buyer concern
- Evidence assembled too late
- What we do
- The document set is named in the enquiry, with each document tied to the question it answers.
- Procurement outcome
- The hold point is a check against an agreed set rather than a negotiation.
Advantages describe procurement practice. They make no claim about stocking position, mine or mill ownership, origin, delivered tonnage, pricing position or certification status.
From enquiry to delivery
Who owns what, at every stage
A lower-band order moves through the same stages as any other, with the emphasis shifted onto the basis and the gangue. Each stage below names the concern it resolves, who owns it, what has to be supplied, what comes out of it and the risk if it is skipped.
| Stage | Buyer concern | Owner | Required input | Evidence / output | Risk if skipped | Next action |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Requirement issued | Offers at this band cannot be lined up on a headline figure. | Buyer / procurement | Form, iron basis, gangue limits, moisture basis, sizing, route. | A comparable enquiry record. | Suppliers quote on different bases. | Run the delivered-cost comparison. |
| Basis fixed | A figure without a stated basis cannot be converted. | Buyer / technical sourcing | The basis for iron, moisture, gangue and price. | A requirement expressed on one basis. | Every comparison rests on an assumption. | Restate the basis in writing. |
| Converted to contained iron | Price per gross tonne hides what is actually being bought. | Buyer / procurement analyst | Iron figure, moisture value and priced mass for each offer. | A cost per unit of contained iron. | The cheaper offer is chosen for the wrong reason. | Compare on the converted figure. |
| Gangue review | The impurity load decides suitability at this band. | Buyer / plant metallurgist | Impurity values with their basis and method. | A schedule checked against your limits. | An unsuitable material is accepted on price alone. | Close the missing evidence. |
| Blend planning | Where a target burden is met by combining bands. | Buyer / plant operations | Blend ratio, target figure and tolerance. | A stated blend specification. | The blended figure is discovered at the yard. | Agree the blend in the enquiry. |
| Commercial basis | Price and quantity must rest on one basis. | Buyer / supplier commercial | Mass basis, quantity, cadence and Incoterm. | A quotation on a stated basis. | Wet and dry quantities cannot be reconciled. | Agree the basis in writing. |
| RFQ handoff | The resolved basis must reach the supplier intact. | Buyer | The complete comparison record. | A transmittable RFQ summary. | Fields lost or normalised silently. | Send the summary as entered. |
Buyer FAQ
Questions that come up once a lower-band offer is on the table
These are the questions procurement teams raise once offers exist at this band — not what the figure means, but what has to be pinned down before two of them can be compared or accepted.
Is 58% Fe a lower-quality ore than a higher band?
No. The figure describes how much iron the material carries; it says nothing on its own about whether the material suits your plant. A lower band often carries a different gangue load and a different moisture profile, which can be managed in blending or in burden design at a delivered cost that works. Whether it suits your process is established by the full acceptance schedule — gangue limits, moisture, sizing and the terms your contract names — rather than by comparing headline figures.
How do I compare a 58% Fe offer against a higher-band offer?
Convert both to the same basis before comparing anything. That means the same moisture basis, the same priced mass, and a cost expressed per unit of contained iron rather than per tonne as received. Then compare what the iron is carried with — silica, alumina, phosphorus and sulphur — against your process limits, because the tonnage of material you must handle to win the same iron rises as the figure falls. Compare the full stated basis, not the two headline numbers.
Which impurity limits should I set for a 58% Fe requirement?
Your process sets them, not this page. Silica and alumina load the slag and change the energy per tonne of iron produced; phosphorus and sulphur carry into the metal and are constrained according to your route. Because material at this band tends to carry more gangue per unit of iron, the limits are usually the field that decides suitability — and each limit should be tied to the analytical method that will verify it at your hold point.
Does moisture matter more on a lower-band ore?
It matters on every ore, but the consequences of leaving it unstated are larger here. Moisture decides how the priced mass reconciles between wet and dry tonnage, and because more wet tonnes are needed to win the same contained iron, an unstated moisture basis changes the delivered cost more at this band than at a higher one. State the moisture value, the basis it is reported on, and the determination method before comparing quotations.
Which documents should I request with a 58% Fe enquiry?
Request each one explicitly rather than assuming it travels with the lot: a certificate of analysis per lot, a moisture determination report, a size distribution report with the method behind it, the sampling and inspection record, and the origin and shipping documents where your destination requires them. They answer different questions, and a document assumed rather than named is a common cause of a hold point delay.
Qualified RFQ
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Send the iron basis, your gangue limits, the moisture basis, the sizing, quantity, destination and required delivery date. Every unresolved item is listed back to you as a question rather than filled in on your behalf. Price on request.
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