In January the Far Eastern Railroad transported 1.5 million tons of coal, down by 12% YoY. Last year coal transportation dropped by 5.5%, to 17.8 million tons. At the same time iron ore concentrate transportation grew by 88.9%, to 60 thousand tons. In the whole 2018, 664 thousand tons of concentrate were transported, up by…
In 2018 Belarus increased the exports of anthracite coal to Ukraine 340-fold, and ordinary coal – 980-fold. Belarus has no coal deposits of its own. Coal re-exports last year totaled 853.9 thousand tons valued at $74.9 million. Ukraine accounted for 588.5 thousand tons (0.6 thousand tons in 2017) at $50.3 million ($63 million), and EU…
Yuzhniy Kuzbass has mined 50 million tons of coal since it put the Olzherasskiy pit into operation. The coal extraction at the pit started in September 1980. Its reserves are estimated at 72 million tons. At present the company is developing two sites – Berezovskiy and Berezovskiy-2. (Ukrainian metal)
Since the start of the year and as of February 18, the largest coal miner in Sakhalin – Solntsevsky Coal Pit LLC has extracted 900 thousand tons of coal. The enterprise is operating at the Solntsevskoye deposit. Extraction is carried out at two sites – Yuzhniy-1 and Yuzhniy-2. This year the company intends to mine…
In January Kuzbass region coal pits yielded 13 million tons of coal, and mines – 7.2 million tons. The combined result exceeded that of January 2018 by 8.6%. Coking coal output totaled 6.2 million tons (4.8 million tons in January 2018) and power-generating coal – 14 million tons (13.8 million tons). Coal processing in the…
In January Ukrainian by-product coke plants imported 1.01 million tons of coking coal and coal concentrate, down by 2% MoM, but up by 11% YoY. In December 2018 coal imports totaled 1.03 million tons, as in November 2018. Local coal deliveries dropped by 8% MoM and by 9% YoY, to 250 thousand tons. In general,…
In January Chukotka Autonomous District mined 44 thousand tons of coal, down almost 2-fold YoY. Beringpromugol LLC and Shakta Ugolnaya are developing coal deposits in the region. Thus, Beringpromugol mined 28 thousand tons of coal, down by 46%, while Shakta Ugolnaya – 16 thousand tons, down by 50%. Last year coal output increased by 76%,…
In 2018 coal output in Ukraine dropped by 10% YoY. According to the Ministry of energy and coal industry, in particular power-generating coal mining went up by 4.9%, to 27.48 million tons. At the same time the output of coking coal decreased by 14.6%, to 58.1 million tons. (Ukrainian metal)
