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Fortescue Metals Group (FMG) is an Australian iron ore mining company with large holdings in the Pilbara region of Western Australia. The company is listed as FMG on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) and has shown spectacular share appreciation in the last few years. Fortescue Metals is led by entrepreneur and one of Australia's richest men Andrew Forrest. Forrest also founded Anaconda Nickel (now Minara Resources), one of the world's largest nickel miners.

Fortescue Metals Group reached a milestone in May 2008 by loading its first iron ore shipment bound for China. Fortescue have at least 10 Chinese steel mill contracts lasting for around 10 years. Baosteel was the first company to receive their iron ore. Fortescue Metals Group is the operator of the mine in Cloud Break. Fortescue also holds major deposits at Mount Nicholas, Christmas Creek, Solomon and Tongolo.

The company has built a mine, a railway and a new port at Point Anderson (aka Herb Elliott port) near Port Hedland. The railway is a heavy duty standard gauge one, with 220 wagons 35,200T trains up to 2.5km long carrying 29,000T of ore at 40T axleload. (The weight of the two 4000HP engines is extra.) The railway is open access (infrastructure) which means that other mines will be able to use it for a fee. Atlas Exports has signed a commercial agreement to use the line and port.

The Fortescue Railway parallels another iron ore railway (the BHP Billiton railway) for over 100 km. Fortescue sought access to use this line, but BHP declined. The National Competition Council recommended Fortescue should be granted access, but then Treasurer Peter Costello refused the NCC recommendation. However, Fotescue appealed this to the Australian Competition Tribunal. In parallel BHP Billiton sought to overturn the original NCC decision in the Federal and then High Court. On each occasion the judges ruled against BHP Billiton. Railway access would significantly help Fortescue's development and expansion of their 40,000 km² owned area if access is allowed. The Fortescue rail line has a flyover over the Mt Newman Railway, and a crossing of the BHP Billiton railway. The new trains on the Fortescue Railway are fitted with Electronically Controlled Pneumatic brakes for greater performance.

The first shipment of ore took place in May 2008, 3.5 years after construction started.
Significant increases in shipments of iron ore from Fortescue's Cloud Break mine are expected over 2008. The initial shipment has been hailed as a strong sign that Fortescue will become an increasingly important force in the iron ore market. Talks on increases in ore prices have bolstered this position as competitor Rio Tinto secured a deal that effectively increased ore prices by 95%. Fortescue has announced that it would use Rio Tinto's benchmark iron ore price for the time being.

FMG是铁矿业的生力军。公司自2003年成立以来，其惊人的发展速度史无前例。凭借其300亿澳元的市值及因成功运作而不断扩大的声誉，FMG势必成为澳大利亚矿业出口中新的重量级公司。
FMG项目建设于2006年2月在黑德兰港安德圣角启动，随后港口、铁路及矿山建设全面展开，仅用2年时间完成了对外开放的铁路基础设施建设，FMG Herb Elliott港也投入使用，公司第一个矿山 – 断云矿山的开采正全面进行。
2008年5月15日FMG驶出第一船矿石。
FMG于2006年8月及2007年7月的2次完成37亿澳元的项目融资，其中发行10亿澳元股票。2006年8月的融资为亚太区最大的单笔高收益债券交易。今天，FMG已为澳大利亚证券交易所标准普尔50强之一。
公司项目一期工程年产5500万吨，并会按市场需求进行扩产。一期工程产量及扩建工程的5000万吨/年的产量已签订长协。
公司在澳洲皮尔巴拉地区拥有最大探矿领地，在其50000平方公里总面积15%不到的地域发现并拥有45亿吨铁矿石资源，其中11亿吨达到储量标准。