The Vorgashorskaya mine has become the first enterprise of Vorkutaugol to mine 2 million tons of coal this year. By the end of the year the mine intends to have extracted one more million tons of coal. The mine is the largest coal-extracting enterprise on the European part of Russia. This is also the youngest…
Severstal Steel Decisions has sent the first wagon of metal structures to Vorkutaugol. The structures will be used to construct lifting machine premises at the Komsomolskaya mine. In particular, the company has produced metal structures for the frame of the building. The metal structures weighing over 100 tons have been produced at the Orel manufacturing…
In January-June one of the largest coalmining companies of Russia – Vorkutaugol – decreased output by 10% YoY, to 4 million tons. The decrease is the result of the scheduled works at the Vorkutinskaya, Zapolyarnaya, Komsomolskaya and Vorgashorskaya mines. Metallurgic coal output grew 3-fold, to 80 thousand tons. Its reserves are situated at the Vorgashorskoye…
The Central Processing Factory Pechorskaya of Vorkutaugol has successfully finished an experiment to improve quality of the coal concentrate and has started supplying it to Cherepovets Iron and Steel Works. The project to decrease ash content in the concentrate began in April. As the result of the experiments, the ash content was decreased to 8%.…
Komsomolskaya mine of Vorkutaugol has put into operation a new long face 612 with the reserves of 821 thousand tons of coal. The length of the face is 300 meters, and the width – 2.2 meters. The long face will be developed until April 2019. (Ukrainian metal)
The Vorkutinskaya mine was the first enterprise of the Vorkutaugol to have mined 1 million tons of coal this year. The mine has been constructed on the basis of the Kapitalnaya mine No. 1 and No. 40 and was commissioned in 1973. Now the mine is developing two long faces. Last year the mine yielded…
Vorkutaugol has purchased special mobile devices to check mining machinery and carry out labor safety audits. Before going underground a wireman runs a special app on the smartphone. Near the machines there are special reading devices. The smartphone screen shows what has to be done with each machine. The first 12 devices are being tested…
Vorkutaugol has received the quality certificate for the coal concentrate of a new grade – 1Zh. The company has also confirmed the quality of its other products – coal concentrate of grades K, 2Zh and GZhO. The new certificate allows the company to sell the product. “We started processing the 1Zh grade in trial mode…
