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Hydrogen and Iron ore

Their prices have moved together.

Hydrogen (chemical) and Iron ore (commodity): 1 relationship.

How they are linked

1. Price link: future reductant

Cost and price · Weak · Both ways

Green steel plans use hydrogen to reduce high-grade iron ore pellets directly, which would raise the premium for high-grade ore. Today the hydrogen index is a US industrial gas price and shows no link with ore (-0.06 monthly).

  • -0.06 monthly change correlation
  • -0.20 12-month change correlation
  • -1.54 fitted elasticity

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