In 2017 the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) mined 16.82 million tons of coal, up by 41.5% from the 2013 results.
The increase has to do with the investment projects, in particular, of Kolmar – at $1 billion.
At first the company mine coking coal and sold it as power-generating coal at low price. But then it decided to construct processing factories and export premium grades of coal.
By 2021 the company intends to have constructed another processing factory. (Ukrainian metal)