In 14 months there will be no profitless mines in Ukraine. According to the minister of energy and coal industry Igor Nasalik, by the end of 2017, 70% of mines will be lossless, and 50% – profitable. “The mines will also start paying for electricity, for which they haven’t paid for 2 years. They will…
Prime Minister of Ukraine Vladimir Groysman is initiating the cancellation of the mine check moratorium. He has ordered the Ministry of energy and coal industry to prepare a decree to allow checking coalmining enterprises. Earlier the Vice Prime Minister Vladimir Kistion presented the results of the labor safety check of the mining companies. After checking…
According to the deputy prime minister of Belarus Vladimir Semashko, the country is not negotiating coal supplies with the self-proclaimed Lugansk People’s Republic, a terrorist organization created and supported by Russia. “Belarus has no need for Donbass coal”, he said. The reason for such a statement was the interview of the LPR leader Igor Plotnitsky…
Uskovskaya miners have started digging coal at the long face 50-08. The reserves of the face are estimated at 1.8 million tons of coking coal of the premium GZh grade. Each month the miners intend to obtain some 250 thousand tons of coal. After processing at Evraz factories Uskovskaya mine coal is delivered to other…
The power-generating company Centrenergo has cancelled the tender to buy 700 thousand tons of anthracite coal for Zmievskaya and Tripolskaya thermal power plants with delivery in May-December. According to the company statement, the decision was taken by the management in fear of the price increase in case of exchange rate fluctuations. 2 companies participated in…
Petr Poroshenko has signed a decree to impose a moratorium on the bankruptcy of state mines until January 1, 2019. The decree prohibits accounts arrests and the procedure of bankruptcy unless by the order of the Ministry of energy and coal industry. Accounts arrests result in non-payment of salary to state miners, moreover coal companies…
In January-April coal companies of Chukotka Autonomous District mined 199.425 thousand tons of coal, up 2-fold YoY. At present two companies mine coal in the region – Ugolnaya Mine and Beringpromugol of Tigers Realm Coal Limited. Ugolnaya mine has supplied 77.925 thousand tons of coal from Anadyr deposits, down by 17% YoY. Beringpromugol, which started…
In 2016 Russia received 940 thousand tons of anthracite and 95 thousand tons of other coal from occupied territories of Donetsk and Lugansk regions. These are only the volumes that have been officially included in the Russian Railroads statistics. In 2015 Russia illegally took some 1.3 million tons of anthracite from the occupied territories. Donbass…