On November 22 Bachaty Coal Pit of Kuzbassrazrezugol mined the anniversary 350-millonth ton of coal since the pit had been commissioned.
None of the coal enterprises in Russia has ever had such results.
The pit was commissioned in 1949 with the design capacity of 300 thousand tons of coal per year. In the first year of operation 317 thousand tons were mined. The millionth ton was extracted 5 years later – in 1954.
In 1966 the enterprise was the first in the world to extract coking coal from an open pit.
In 2007 the annual output reached 9.153 million tons. (Ukrainian metal)
