Ukraine: Capitalnaya mine operation blocked

The Capitalnaya mine of the state enterprise Mirnogradugol has not been operating for more than a week. The reason is that the Mirnogradskaya Central Processing Factory has stopped accepting rock. Capitalnaya usually mines some 1.5-2 thousand tons of coal per day. The mine accounts for the lion’s share of the enterprise revenue, thus the blocking…

Ukraine: scrap prices to fall

The state concern Ukrpromvneshekspertisa forecasts that prices of ferrous scrap will fall by 3.5-3.6%, to 5.3-5.5 thousand UAH per ton. Local metal companies will be cautiously decreasing the price of raw materials purchased due to the drop of rolled metal cost on world markets. But the price drop will not be considerable, as scrap procurement…