The Russian Railroads wants to increase coal transportation tariff next year due to the high increase of its price in the last three months. The company reported this at the meeting with the Transport Vice Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich. Coal started to grow in price in August, since then the coking coal price almost tripled,…
Salary debts at state mines have exceeded 800 million UAH. According to the Independent Miners Union of Ukraine chairman Mikhail Volynets, the unions demand 4.6 billion UAH in the 2017 budget to support the state coal sector, which will at any rate allow paying wages in time. But this money will not be enough to…
The minister of energy and coal industry of Ukraine Igor Nasalik visited Severodonetsk in Lugansk region and met with the state regional administration. Nasalik said that the regional mines would receive financing of 1 billion UAH under government guaranties. “I have come to the Lugansk region to help. I want to see the situation at…
The Ternovskoye Mine Group has put a new long face into operation. 788 thousand tons of coal will keep the local miners busy until January 2018. The length of the face is 280 meters. The average daily output is estimated at 2 thousand tons. (Ukrainian metal)
In January-September Koks, a part of Industrial-Metallurgical Complex, produced 2.12 million tons of bulk coke, up by 3%. During the whole year the company coking batteries have been 100% loaded, IMC strategy and communications vice-president Sergey Frolov said. Coking coal output at IMC mines decreased by 7% YoY, to 1.45 million tons, due to repair…
Pavlogradskoye Mine Group has mined 3 million tons of power-generating coal a month before the planned time. The company is in the TOP-3 DTEK miners. Average daily output in January-October totaled 11 thousand tons. “The output of 3 million tons will let out thermal power plants provide light and warmth to hundred thousands of Ukrainian…
The Cabinet of Ministers has corrected the Novovolynskaya No. 10 mine construction project estimating it at 4457.24 million UAH. According to the new project, 2.189 billion UAH will be spent on mining and construction works, 1.309 billion – on equipment and machinery, 960.4 million UAH – on other expenses. The time of construction is now…
According to the coal industry department of the Kemerovo region, the Kuzbass Fuel Company is repairing two of its processing factories at the Vinogradovsky open-pit mine. The overhaul will see the assembly of more productive equipment, increasing the processing at both factories from 6 million tons of coal per year to 9 million tons. And…
