In January-March Kuzbassrazrezugol mined 11.1 million tons of coal (including almost 1.6 million tons of coking coal), up by 2.5% YoY. Sales grew by 1.8%, to 10.3 million tons. Exports accounted for 70% of sales: 7.3 million tons were exported, and 3 million tons supplied to domestic customers. The company factories processed over 10 million…
Volyn miners have addressed the Volyn Regional State Administration chairman Alexander Savchenko asking him to help save the Novovolynskaya mine No. 9. The mine union chairman Yuri Kalistratov said that enterprise wanted to remain within the National Coal Company, as this would allow it to operate for some 13 years. “This will keep people, mining…
In January-March Chukotka Autonomous District mined 183 thousand tons of coal, up by 6.6% YoY. Beringpromugol, operating at the Fandyushkinskoye Pole deposits, mined 140 thousand tons of coal, up by 32% YoY. This year the company intends to extract 600 thousand tons of coal. (Ukrainian metal)
In January-March Ukraine mined 8.359 million tons of coal, up by 19.3% YoY. According to the Ministry of energy and coal industry, coking coal output dropped by 9.9%, to 1.614 million tons, and that of power-generating coal – by 21.3%, to 6.744 million tons. In March coal mining grew by 1.3%, to 3.024 million tons.…
In January-March Russian Coal mined 4 million tons of coal. Some 1 million tons of power-generating coal were mined at the Stepnoy pit in the Republic of Khakasia. Last quarter the company also mined the 60-millionth ton of coal. The Stepnoy pit was put into operation in 1993. In 2017 it yielded over 4.2 million…
In 2017 Ukraine imported 2.66 million tons of anthracite from Russia, or 78.6% of the total imports. According to the state enterprise Gosvneshinform, imports totaled 3.38 million tons, up 3-fold YoY. “99.5% of all coal from Russia was imported via middlemen. Average price was $99.3 per ton. Directly Russia supplied only 12.1 thousand tons with…
In January-March Boshnyakovsky Coal Pit mined 131 thousand tons of coal. The company owns three licenses to develop coal sites at the Boshnyakovskoye deposits. In 2010 the company obtained the licenses to Soldatskiy-1 and Onnaysky sites, and in December 2017 – to Onnaysky-Southern. This year the latter is expected to yield 0.5 million tons of…
In 2018 Mechel intends to reach coal output at the level of 23.3 million tons. “In particular, UKUZ is expected to yield 9.5 million tons, Yakutugol – 8.5 million tons and Elga – 5.3 million tons. Coking coal concentrate will total 10.7 million tons. Power-generating coal output – 5.8 million tons”, the company CEO Oleg…