Russia has blocked deliveries of power-generating coal to Ukraine via Belarus. According to the chairman of the Independent Miners’ Union and a member of the Batkivschina party Mikhail Volynets, the situation with stocking power coal for winter has already been unsatisfactory, but now it could become catastrophic. Some 300-400 thousand tons of Russian coal used…
In January-September Uskovskaya mine extracted 2 million tons of coal, including 1.7 million tons from the long face 50-20, and the rest from the face 50-22. When the face 50-22 is developed, the miners will turn to the long face 52-04. Next year the long face 48-8 will be commissioned. This is the fourth mine…
The new owner of the Tkibuli mines, Steel International Trade Company, has fully paid the salaries of miners formerly on strike demanding back pay, announced Georgian Economy Minister Natia Turnava. Turnava noted that she personally was in communication with miners and the new company. She also said that reopening the coalmines and building a thermal…
In 2019 coal output could grow by 1.1%, to 445 million tons, according to a forecast of social-economic development for 2020 and 2021-2022. In 2024 the expected output could be 510 million tons and in 2022 – 483 million tons. In 2018 Russia exported 196.8 million tons of coal, including 23 million tons of coking…
In January-August Sakhalin region mined 8.5 million tons of coal, up by 19.7% YoY. This year the region plans to have extracted 11.4 million tons of coal. 96.5%, or 8.2 million tons of coal mined was exported to the Asian Pacific region countries, including 3.5 million tons to China, 3.4 million tons to the South…
Since the start of the year Yerunakovskaya-VII mine has extracted 2 million tons of coking coal from the 48-6 long face. The 1-million ton-milestone was reached in June. A new long face with the reserves of 3 million tons of coal will soon be commissioned. It will be in development until late 2020. The coal…
Miners in the western Georgian mining town of Tkibuli have stopped their protest as they have been promised to be paid their salaries, Georgian Minister of Economy Natia Turnava said after meeting with Saknakhshiri, a daughter company of Georgian Industrial Group (GIG) and miners. The company has a new Georgian investor, Steel Investment Trades Company,…
In January-June over 430 employees resigned from Centrougol coal enterprise, which included 5 mines. The enterprise is managed by authorities of the Lugansk People’s Republic, the terrorist organization created and supported by Russia. The reason of the employee flow is the chronic wage debts. So far the debts reach 1.5 million rubles. (Ukrainian metal)
