How ore auctions undermine market - The Hindu BusinessLine
How ore auctions undermine market The current round has skewed the market in favour of captive users vis-a-vis merchant miners The March 2021 amendments to the MMDR Act are expected to bring in transformative reforms for the Indian mining sector. Odisha, with huge iron ore resources, has already completed the first phase of iron ore auctions in 2020 and the next lot of auction is in the offing. There are a few lessons from the previous auction. First, the 2020 auction gave rise to exorbitantly high winning bids, which are irrational and unsustainable. It witnessed bids in terms of revenue sh...