Citic admits missteps as Sino errors mount CHINA'S Citic Pacific has admitted it misjudged the difficulties of building a mine "in a foreign land" as it missed yet another deadline to begin shipments from its disastrous $US8 billion ($7.8bn) Sino Iron project in Western Australia. Four weeks ago, Citic said in a statement it was "finetuning" the first production line at the Pilbara magnetite plant and "looking forward to its first shipment in February."