Yuzhniy Kuzbass is attracting a subcontractor to work at the Bereovsky-1 site of the Olzheransky Pit. The Region-42 LLC will be using 2 Komatsu excavators, a drilling rig, a Caterpillar bulldozer, a grader and 7 quarry dump trucks with the lifting capacity of 130 and 160 tons. June coal output is expected at 25 thousand…
The number of operating state coalmines in Ukraine has decreased. “Last year we finished the process of shutting down 5 state mines”, the minister of energy and coal industry Igor Nasalik said. He also named the mines, which coped with the coal output targets. “These are the Yuzhnodonbasskaya No. 1, the mine named after Sugray,…
Russia plans to raise its coal output by around 1% YoY, to 413 million tons in 2018, according to documents signed at a ministerial meeting between Russia and Belarus on June 13. Coal consumption is expected at 192.5 million tons in Russia and 630,000 tons in Belarus, of which 530,000 tons will be imported from…
In May industrial prices in Ukraine grew by 0.8% YoY after a zero growth in April, an increase of 0.3% in March, 1.2% in February and 4.4% in January. According to the State Statistics Service, coal became 4.3% more expensive, while coke – 3.6%. Since the beginning of the year industrial prices have grown by…
Rosterminalugol, operator of Russia’s largest dedicated coal port (run by Port Management Company, PMC LLC) has shipped 10 million tons of export coal year-to-date. According to the stevedoring company, the milestone ton was loaded onto the Panamax ship Robert Oldendorff. This result was achieved on June 8 (in 2017 – on June 12). From the…
In January-May Bikinskoye coal deposits in Primorye region yielded 2.058 million tons of coal. Two companies are operating at the site – Luchegorsk Coal Pit (LUR) and its contractor Petrotrade-M LLC. Of the total volume LUR provided 1.055 million tons of coal with the target of 1.06 million tons. Petrotrade-M mined 1.003 million tons with…
In January-May Ukraine mined 13.896 million tons of coal, down by 12% YoY. According to the Ministry of energy and coal industry, coking coal output dropped by 7.5%, to 2.698 million tons, and that of power-generating coal by 13.1%, to 11.198 million tons. In May Ukraine mined 2.66 million tons of coal, down by 2.3%…
Ukrainian Member of Parliament, coordinator of the Information Resistance analytical group Dmytro Tymchuk says Russia has begun to massively transport coal from the self-proclaimed “Luhansk and Donetsk People’s Republics (LPR/DPR)” in the occupied areas of eastern Ukraine. “Figures show that coal supplies to Russia’s Rostov region in the first quarter of this year accounted for…