In January-April Ukraine mined 13.51 million tons of power-generating and coking coal, up by 9% YoY. According to the Ministry of energy and coal industry, state mines yielded 2.1 million tons, or 15.6% of the total volume. State mines output fall reached 6.8%. In April Ukraine mined 3.48 million tons of coal, with 501.4 thousand…
The head of Donetsk regional military-civilian administration Pavel Zhebrivsky has visited the state mine 1/3 Novogrodovskaya, where a new breakage face has been put into operation. The project cost 17 million UAH. The administration plans to mine 2 thousand tons of coal per day. The reserves will last till December. (Ukrainian metal)
Total closing of state mines is out of question, says the new minister of energy and coal industry of Ukraine Igor Nasalik.
The newly appointed minister of energy and coal industry Igor Nasalik has promised to visit Novovolynsk as he intends to keep the coal industry in the region.
In January-March Ukraine mined 10 million tons of coal, up by 6.4% YoY. According to the Ministry of energy and coal industry, in March coal output totaled 3.4 million tons. (Ukrainian metal)
Rolf Petri of Berlin Relations GmbH has presented the project of coal industry reforming to the Donetsk region administration.
In January-March Ukraine imported $353.5 million worth of coal, down by 12.7% YoY.
Ukrainian government has passed the decree #3813 on making changes to the addendum to the Decree of Ukraine #3 “On the State Budget of Ukraine in 2016” as to the state support of state coal companies.
