In January-April Ukrainian thermal and central heating power plants received 550.5 thousand tons of imported coal, including 137.2 thousand tons in April. All the April coal was supplied from Russia. According to the Ministry of energy and coal industry, Ukrainian power plants received 72.9 thousand tons of coal from the South African Republic, 358.8 thousand…
The miners of the Mugunsky site, a part of Tulunugol open-pit, yielded 100-millionth ton of coal. The deposits are being developed since 1992. All the coal mined there could be loaded into 500 thousand cars with the length of 18 thousand km. Azeisky open-pit has so far mined over 300 million tons of coal, Tulunsky…
The Yuzhnodonbasskaya mine No. 1 was cut off from electricity because of the debts. “On May 10, the mine being unable to clear its debts was cut off grid. This is another example of the authorities inability to provide for the normal operation of the coal industry”, the chairman of the Independent Miners Union Mikhail…
The debt to the miners of the state enterprise Novovolynskaya mine No. 1 is 3616 thousand UAH (for February, March and April). According to the chairman of the Independent Miners Union of Ukraine Mikhail Volynets, the mine owes 150 thousand UAH for energy carriers and some 50 thousand UAH for water supplies. Earlier the Yuzhnodonbasskaya…
Miners of Krivoy Rog Iron Ore Industrial Complex, ArcelorMittal Kriviy Rih and Evraz Sukhaya Balka are still striking, demanding the increase of salary. According to the chairman of the Independent Miners Union of Ukraine Mikhail Volynets, miners’ wives together with children and other relatives have blocked railroad and stopped sales. At AMKR over 300 miners…
Tugnuyskaya Processing Factory has good prospects of developing. To increase capacity SUEK decided to construct another processing factory. “When the second module of the factory is put into operation, we will increase capacity and create 100 new jobs”, the acting deputy CEO on processing of Tugnuyskaya Factory Igor Shkodin said. The annual processing plan for…
DTEK has started supplying Pridneprovskaya and Krivorozhskaya thermal power plants with coal from its mines in Rostov region (Russia). “Before the first coal from the South African Republic arrives in June, DTEK decided to direct some coal from Obukhovskoye mine group in Russia”, the company informed. The enterprise is a part of DTEK and at…
Russian authorities have started denying coalminers new licenses because of the accident and safety risks. MMK and PMH are operating at the Nikitinskiy Verkhniy site in Kuzbass – the former has some 130 million tons of deposits, while the latter intends to start mining at the site with 200 million tons. But the Ministry of…