The new owner of the Tkibuli mines, Steel International Trade Company, has fully paid the salaries of miners formerly on strike demanding back pay, announced Georgian Economy Minister Natia Turnava. Turnava noted that she personally was in communication with miners and the new company. She also said that reopening the coalmines and building a thermal…
In 2019 coal output could grow by 1.1%, to 445 million tons, according to a forecast of social-economic development for 2020 and 2021-2022. In 2024 the expected output could be 510 million tons and in 2022 – 483 million tons. In 2018 Russia exported 196.8 million tons of coal, including 23 million tons of coking…
In January-August Sakhalin region mined 8.5 million tons of coal, up by 19.7% YoY. This year the region plans to have extracted 11.4 million tons of coal. 96.5%, or 8.2 million tons of coal mined was exported to the Asian Pacific region countries, including 3.5 million tons to China, 3.4 million tons to the South…
Since the start of the year Yerunakovskaya-VII mine has extracted 2 million tons of coking coal from the 48-6 long face. The 1-million ton-milestone was reached in June. A new long face with the reserves of 3 million tons of coal will soon be commissioned. It will be in development until late 2020. The coal…
Miners in the western Georgian mining town of Tkibuli have stopped their protest as they have been promised to be paid their salaries, Georgian Minister of Economy Natia Turnava said after meeting with Saknakhshiri, a daughter company of Georgian Industrial Group (GIG) and miners. The company has a new Georgian investor, Steel Investment Trades Company,…
In January-June over 430 employees resigned from Centrougol coal enterprise, which included 5 mines. The enterprise is managed by authorities of the Lugansk People’s Republic, the terrorist organization created and supported by Russia. The reason of the employee flow is the chronic wage debts. So far the debts reach 1.5 million rubles. (Ukrainian metal)
The license to develop the Turuk coal deposit has been sold to a company created a month ago. The auction was held on September 5. With the initial price of $3.262 thousand, the winner offered $205 thousand. 4 companies participated in the auction, with the winning bid submitted by Yrys Ken LLC. Coal reserves are…
Russia’s income from coal exports in January-July grew by 9.2% YoY, to $9.798 billion. In January-July 2018 exports revenue was $8.977 billion. Volume-wise the exports increased by 9.1%, to 118.374 million tons. In 2018 coal export revenue went up by 25.9% YoY, to $17.031 billion. Volume-wise exports grew by 10%, to 199.472 million tons. (Ukrainian…