In January-June the TALTEK enterprises mined 2.2 million tons of coal, up by 24.4% YoY. Sales increased by 25.5%, to 2.3 million tons. Local sales account for 40%, while exports – 60%. “Constant investments into optimization of manufacturing processes, modernization, decrease of expenses and the high level of labor motivation give us this considerable increase…
In January-May Ukrainian thermal and combined heat and power plants consumed 9.16 million tons of coal, down by 26% YoY. According to the Ministry of energy and coal industry, in May coal consumption decreased by 40.8% YoY, to 1.343 million tons. The drop in consumption is the result of the stop of deliveries from the…
The Industrial-Metallurgical Holding has put into operation two new mines in Kemerovo region: the second stage of Butovskaya mine and the mine named after Tikhov. Investments into construction of Tikhov mine totaled 12,5 billion rubles. The project capacity of the first stage is 1.8 million tons. This year 1 million tons of coking coal will…
In September the Cabinet of Ministers will spend 100 million UAH on individual protection means for the miners. According to the Prime Minister Vladimir Groysman, there are already funds for the project, and in September 100 million UAH more will be added. In May the Cabinet created the concept of reforming and developing the coal…
In January-June Ukraine mined 18.435 million tons of coal, down by 2.9% YoY, or by 556.8 thousand tons. According to the Ministry of energy and coal industry, coking coal output dropped by 24.7%, or by 1.11 million tons, to 3.387 million tons, while that of power-generating coal increased by 3.8%, or by 555.4 thousand tons,…
In January-June Chukotka Autonomous District mined 217 thousand tons of coal against 140.9 thousand tons in H1 2016. At present two enterprises mine for coal in the region: the “Ugolnya Mine” JSC at the Anadyr deposits and “Beringpromugol” LLC at Fandyushkinskoye deposits. In 6 months Ugolnaya Mine yielded 95.5 thousand tons of coal, down by…
In July-August the state seaport Yuzhny plans to send to Ukrainian thermal power plants some 225 thousand tons of anthracite from the South African Republic. “Within two months we expect the arrival of 3 vessels from SAR with over 225 thousand tons of coal”, the port reported. On July 21 Panamax ZHAO YAUNG FENG will…
The Russian customs service has acknowledged exports of anthracite from the militants’ occupied mines on Donbass. According to the statistics of the Southern customs department of the Federal Customs Service of Russia, in May Rostov region received 58.652 thousand tons of anthracite valued at $3.14 million from Ukraine, and in January-May – 236.568 thousand tons…
