In 2020 Vorkutaugol investments will amount to 6.7 billion rubles, up by 20% YoY. Some 2.8 billion rubles will be spent to modernize the fleet of mining and coal-processing machinery. Preparation of rock excavation will receive 1.3 billion rubles. Projects in the sphere of industrial safety will see over 640 million rubles of investments. IT-projects…
In 2019 Vorkutaugol increased coal output. Rock excavation totaled 10.3 million tons, up from 9.6 million tons in 2018. Rock processing grew from 7.9 million tons to 9.8 million tons. Coal manufacture went up from 3.4 million tons to 4.6 million tons. (Ukrainian metal)
Nikolai Kigalov has been appointed a new Vorkutaugol general director. Sergey Likhopud, who has been holding this office since November 2016, will pursue his career outside Severstal. Since 2009 Kigalov has been a chief engineer at various Kemerovo region coal enterprises. In 2017 he was appointed the Raspadskaya mine director. And since July 2018 he…
Zapolyarnaya mine, a part of Vorkutaugol, was the first to reach its annual coal output plan. So far the mine has extracted 1.68 million tons of coal. At present the mine operates at three long faces. One of them has been commissioned 4 times ahead of schedule. Until the end of the year the enterprise…
In October Vorkutaugol mined 1.213 million tons of coal, up by 70 thousand tons compared with August, when 1.145 million tons of coal were extracted. This was the highest monthly result when operating with 4 mines and a quarry. All the mines fulfilled their output goals in October. The Pechorskaya factory processed 820 thousand tons…
Zapolyarnaya mine, a part of Vorkutaugol, has commissioned a new long face at the Troynoy layer. Its reserves are estimated at 1.12 million tons of coking coal. The breakage face 1312 has been put into operation 4 months earlier than planned. Having commissioned the new long face, Zapolyarnaya has become the only Vorkutaugol mine to…
Vorkutaugol has purchased licenses to develop two new blocks of Vorshagorskoye coal deposit with the combined reserves of 20 million tons. The block 43 has 19.4 million tons of rock and 9.1 million tons of coal. The company intends to start developing it in autumn of 2022. In 6 years the Vorshagorskaya mine will launch…
Vorkutinskaya mine of Vorkutaugol has started working on a new long face. The face 712 is situated in the Troynoy layer, and its deposits amount to 800 thousand tons of coking coal. The long face is expected to be in development until May 2020. The transition from the previous long face to the new one…
