In 2018 Ukraine increased coal imports by 10.6% YoY, to $3035.34 million, while exports dropped by 91.8%, to $8.649 million. According to the State Fiscal Service, in December 2018 coal imports grew by 27.8% YoY, to $341.87 million, while exports fell by 99.7%, to $0.022 million. Last month Ukraine mostly imported coal from Russia ($154.03…
Ukraine has prolonged the moratorium to bankrupt and block accounts of the state coal enterprises till January 1, 2022. Had the parliament not made such a decision, from early 2019 the whole operation of the state coal mining enterprises would have been blocked. This would have endangered the whole state sector of the coal industry…
In 2018 Gornyak-1 LLC mined 1.311 million tons of coal in Sakhalin region, down by 4% YoY. The company operated at 4 license sites. The Khandansinskiy-Semirechenskiy site of the Pobedinskaya field yielded the most coal – 826.2 thousand tons. 378.8 thousand tons were mined at the Ivanovskiy site of the Gornozavodskoye deposit. The Gradskiy site…
In 2018 Boshnyakovsky Coal Pit LLC mined 880.3 thousand tons of coal in the Sakhalin region. The volume of rock removed was 18.7 million cubic meters. The work was carried out at the Soldatskiy-1 and Onnayskiy sites of the Boshnyakovskoye coal deposit. The output dropped by 2.3% YoY. The company owns 3 licenses to develop…
In 2018 the Razrez Stepnoy pit, a part of Russkiy Ugol, mined over 4.2 million tons of coal in Khakasia. 3.4 million tons were processed at the factory. The pit employs over 1 thousand locals. The enterprise was founded in 1993. In more than 25 year of operation it has mined over 63 million tons…
In 2018 Kuzbass region extracted 255.3 million tons of coal, up by 5.7% YoY. In particular, pits yielded 165.8 million tons and mines – 89.5 million tons. The output of coking coal was 73.2 million tons, and power-generating coal – 182.1 million tons. Factories processed 182.1 million tons, up by 6.1%. (Ukrainian metal)
In 2018 Amur region extracted 3.5 million tons of power-generating coal, up by 100 thousand tons YoY. The coal is mined at the Yerkovetskiy and Severo-Vostochniy pits. In particular, coal output of the Yerkovetskiy pit, commissioned in 1991, grew by 3%. Severo-Vostochniy pit, operating since 1932, increased output by 4% YoY. (Ukrainian metal)
Every year Russia transports 2.8 million tons of anthracite coal from the territory of the occupied Donbass. “Until 2014 we used to mine some 20 million tons of coal in Donetsk and Lugansk regions. And now we can say that Russia, having no resources of its own, because of the sanctions and enormous expenses on…