Stalled in the planning stages for a decade, Black Iron gained a new life this year due to three factors:

Stalled in the planning stages for a decade, Black Iron gained a new life this year due to three factors: jumping iron prices, China’s drive to diversify raw material imports away from Australia, and the fact that Kryvyi Rih is President Zelenskiy’s home town. At current iron prices, the pay payback period of the US $452 million first phase project is estimated at 2.9 years. Raw material reserves are 411 million tons. The life of the project is 17 years.