Cates Scrap Metal

About Cates Scrap Metal

Cates Scrap Metal is a scrap metal recycling operator working out of Madisonville, Kentucky in Hopkins County. The site serves walk-in sellers, small contractors, and anyone in the surrounding county who needs to turn scrap material into cash rather than haul it to landfill. The directory does not carry an accepted-materials list for this yard at present, and no intake set has been filed. For practical details, day-to-day hours aren't posted in the directory and a phone line is on file. The directory entry is the yard's own self-reported snapshot of how it handles inbound contact and posted schedule, surfaced here as a working baseline for sellers planning a visit to the gate. Posted scrap prices move with the daily commodity market, so the intake quoted on a given day can differ from prices listed online or quoted earlier in the week. A short phone call before a drop-off pins down the day's number, and sellers can also use the same call to ask about minimum-load expectations, since some yards quote different rates depending on the inbound size.

Scrap Price Estimates (US Average)

Daily US average estimates updated Nov 10, 2026, not Cates Scrap Metal's own prices; call the yard for its pay rates. How we estimate prices.

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