These interesting older articles (undated but during Cliff involvement) delve into the logic of the KWG/Chinese partnership...Cliffs did not have the vision that KWG obviously did...one step closer to shovels in the ground.

http://www.wawataynews.ca/new/article/rail-cheaper-road-ring-fire-study

“Everybody would love a railway,” he said on Feb. 1, 2012. “The concept is wonderful, but we don’t see anybody who would finance it.”

http://www.wawataynews.ca/new/article/road-versus-rail-ring-fire

"In Cliffs’ proposal, the company estimates it will have to move 2.3 million tones of chromite out of its mine site per year, along the estimated 350 kilometre road. Considering that an average nine-axel tractor-trailer has a carrying capacity of 46 tonnes, it is going to take somewhere around 50,000 truck-loads per year to move the ore south. A rough calculation shows that will be 140 trips each way over the road per day.
The effects of that much truck traffic are considerable, especially when taking into account the estimated 250 trips each way per year that a railway would need to make."