The Krasnobrodskiy coal pit of Kuzbassrazrezugol has commissioned the first WK-20 excavator in the Kemerovo region. The machine has been produced by the Taiyuan Heavy Machinery Works, a part of AVIC. “The company already has experience in operating such excavators. 5 WK-35 excavators with the ladle volume of 35 cubic meters (two each at the…
In January-August Magadan region mined 261.8 thousand tons of coal, up by 9.1% YoY. At the same time, no coal was mined in July-August. There are 3 enterprises mining for coal in the region – Kolyma Coal Company LLC mined 185 thousand tons, up by 83% YoY; Association of Business Cooperation increased output by 17%,…
The decrease of the coal price to 1800 UAH per ton, as suggested by the draft law 8626, will result in mines shutting down and will simply destroy the coal industry. According to the Independent Miners’ Union chairman Mikhail Volynets, the connection of the Ukrainian coal price to the international indexes through the Rotterdam+ gave…
In January-August Ukrainian heating power plants received 3.74 million tons of imported coal, up 1.7-fold YoY. According to the Ministry of energy and coal industry, in particular Russia supplied 2.91 million tons of coal (or 77.8%), USA – 685.3 thousand tons (18.3%) and the Republic of South Africa – 144.8 thousand tons (3.9%). Such a…
In January-August the Republic of Buryatia mined 3754 thousand tons of coal, up by 42.8% YoY. Razrez Tugnuyskiy has contributed the most to the output increase. At the same time, the regional ministry of natural resources does not disclose the enterprise output. (Ukrainian metal)
In January-June Daltransugol, a part of SUEK, shipped 10.4 million tons of coal from the Vanino terminal, up by 3.6% YoY. All the coal was shipped to the Asian-Pacific region countries. The capacity of the terminal is 30 million tons of coal per year, or 1400 wagons per day. The company is working on increasing…
The Russian Railroads sales center in the city of Chita in August shipped over 13 thousand tons of coal to China. It took the center some 200 wagons to ship the lot. This was also the largest shipping to China last month. (Ukrainian metal)
Since the start of the year Kemerovo region has yielded 121.2 million tons of power-generating coal and 46.7 million tons of coking coal, up by 5.3% YoY. Coal pits have yielded 108 million tons, and mines – 59.9 million tons. In August the region mined 22.2 million tons of coal (20.3 million tons in August…
