The exchange would bid to be involved in a new process, which may turn the current twice-daily gold price-setting conference call into an electronic auction.
The company also said that ore from its Cigar Lake mine, in Canada's Saskatchewan, would not be milled until early 2015, instead by the end of the year.
The firm that operates the global price benchmark confirmed it has begun a request for proposals (RFP) process to find a new administrator for the fix.
The Toronto-based firm has shown president and CEO Jamie Sokalsky the door two years into the job, and less than three months after a breakdown in merger talks with its largest rival.
The world’s second-largest mining company’s produced 139.5 million metric tons of iron ore in the six months through June, while its shipments rose 20% to 142.4 million tons.
