DAILY: Chinese coking coal miners hold prices firm, trades thin

Chinese spot coking coal prices remained largely stable on February 24, the first working day after the nine-day Chinese New Year holiday, as coal miners tended to firm their offers temporarily to watch further developments of the market trend, Mysteel learned.

As of February 24, Mysteel's assessment of the price of the leading brand Anze low-sulfur primary coking coal, extracted in North China's Shanxi province, sat at Yuan 1,570/tonne ($228.3/t), unchanged since February 6, while the assessed national composite coking coal price stood at Yuan 1,267.6/t including the 13% VAT