Yakutugol, a part of Mechel, has started operations at the open-pit coalmine at the Jebariki-Khaya site. In summer 2016 the company stopped using underground method of mining at the site. For open-pit mining Yakutugol bought all the necessary machinery: excavators, bulldozer, dump trucks, etc. The project capacity of the pit is 320 thousand tons of…
Coal mining companies of DTEK, situated on the temporarily occupied territories of Donetsk and Lugansk regions, have suspended mining coal. “Komsomolets Donbassa mine, DTEK Sverdlovantrazit and DTEK Rovenkiantrazit have stopped mining coal”, the group press service reported. On February 13, the railroad connection through the demarcation zone was completely stopped, resulting in the coal mined…
Ukrainian Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman has said that the needs of the coal sector in mine rescue equipment are financed by 15-20%. “This is our tragedy that due to a lack of financing of many important spheres of life people are killed and suffer. Sufficient funds were not invested neither in coalmines, nor roads, hospitals,…
Coal stocks at the warehouses of the thermal power plants on March 6-9, increased by 2.1%, or by 36 thousand tons, to 1.734 million tons. According to the Ministry of energy and coal industry as of early March 9, coal stocks of the anthracite group totaled 711.4 thousand tons, down by 4.7% as of March…
15 years ago Yuznhy Kuzbass put a new processing factory Krasnogorskaya into operation. This was the first enterprise in the Kemerovo region to process anthracite. 2002 saw the first record – 150 thousand tons of coal processed at the project capacity of 130 thousand tons per month. In 2003 the processing volumes increased to 1.8…
In January-February Russian coal exports climbed by 7.5% YoY, to 27.86 million tons, the Ministry of Energy statistics said. In February, Russia exported 13,384,600 tons of coal. Coal production in January-February totaled 65,591,400 tons including 59,557,800 tons supplied. (Portnews/Ukrainian metal)
The initiative to prohibit coal imports from Russia could lead to the creation of a new scheme of coal deliveries from the temporarily uncontrolled territories. According to the political scientist Alexei Yakubin, deliveries from uncontrolled territories will not be stopped, but the scheme will change. “Ukraine has no alternatives to the coal mined there. So…
The state commission on the Stepnaya mine explosion will work for 1 month, with each Monday hosting a meeting. After the investigation the commission will present not only the information on the reasons, results and people responsible for the emergency situation, but will also recommend the Ministry of energy and coal industry how to avoid…