Russia: Yakutugol output up in 2016

In 2016 Yakutugol, a part of Mechel, mined 9.9 million tons of coal, up by 8% YoY. Neryugrinsky pit yielded 9.3 million tons, up by 10% YoY. This is a record for the enterprise since 2008. Kangalassky pit also demonstrated a considerable growth in mining. Last year it yielded 170 thousand tons of coal, up…

Kazakhstan to lose Russian coal market

The prime minister of Kazakhstan Bakytzhan Sagintayev said that the country might soon lose the Russian coal market. “We have long been witnessing that Russia has been decreasing coal purchases. And the technologies are developing fast. Soon we might lose the market that we have today. We need to think of some other ways”, he…

Kazakhstan: coal producers looking for new markets

Kazakh coal producers are interested in entering new markets in Europe and Asia after the reduction in coal export to Russia, Executive Director of the Republican Association of Mining and Metallurgical Enterprises Nikolai Radostovets said. Russia is set to replace Kazakh coal imports to its own coal, within the program of industry development until 2030.…