The restored 5th Western lava of the Yasinovskaya-Glubokaya mine (Mine Group named after Kirov) yielded its first coal. Lava was prepared last summer. But because of the military activity in the mine vicinity in August-September 2014 the mine was left without electricity and some ends were flooded.
Workers put a lot of efforts to dry-up the mine and restore equipment.
“We await 300 tons of coal per day from the 5th Western lava”, says acting mine manager Roman Kim. “There were problems with coal transportation, but we’ve settled them. When the mine reaches its capacity, we will be giving 18 thousand tons of coal per month”. (Ukrainian metal)