Ukraine lacking gas coal

The minister of energy and coal industry Igor Nasalik says Ukraine is experiencing the shortage of gas coal to replace anthracite. In 2017 anthracite consumption dropped by 3.5 million tons and is expected to decrease by 3 million tons more in 2018. Nasalik has addressed the Ministry of finances to provide funds for investments into…

Ukraine: coal output down in January-August 2017

In January-August coal enterprises produced 23.592 million tons of coal, down by 9.4% YoY. According to the Ministry of energy and coal industry, coking coal output decreased by 24.5%, to 4497.3 thousand tons, power-generating coal – by 5%, to 19094.7 thousand tons. In August Ukraine produced 2543.2 thousand tons of coal, down by 26.1% YoY.…

Ukraine: occupied Makeevka mine flooded

At the Horizon mine in the pro-Russia terrorist-occupied Makeevka following the accident at least two miners perished. The accident happened on September 1, when the mine was flooded. The body of a miner – the Makeevka citizen (born 1987) – was recovered. Soon after that the body of another miner was found – also Makeevka…

Ukraine: Lviv against uniting mines

The Lviv region state administration is against uniting all the state mines into one company, the administration fuel and energy saving department director Mikhail Melnik reported. “We don’t like the idea of turning separate enterprises into manufacturing subdivisions. We want money invested into each mine, we want them modernized. The country is carrying out the…