Since the beginning of the year, one and a half million tons of coal have been mined at the Yerkovetsky mine

RIA-Novosti

For 9 months of this year, 1.5 million tons of coal were mined at the Yerkovetsky mine in the Amur region, the Russian Coal company reports.

In total, 2.25 million tons of brown thermal coal of the “2B” brand have been produced at the enterprises of “Amurugol” (the asset of the company “Russian Coal” in the Amur region) since the beginning of the year. The solid fuel extracted from the Amur region sections is used to ensure the energy security of the Russian Far East. It is shipped to the large energy sector – CHP and GRES of the region, and is also supplied for the needs of housing and communal services.

In the near future, the Yerkovetsky mine will produce 45 million tons of coal since the commissioning of the enterprise in 1991.

The press service notes that over the past ten years, the annual production capacity of the Yerkovetsky mine has grown from 1.7 million tons to 2.2 million tons with the prospect of further growth to 2.5 million tons of fuel.

The licensed reserves of the mine amount to about 500 million tons of thermal coal, which makes it possible to operate the mine for more than 180 years. The resources of the entire Yerkovetsky brown coal deposit amount to about 3 billion tons, which makes it possible to significantly increase the production capacity of the coal mining enterprise in the future.

Coal in the Amur region is mined in an open way, using a transportless development system.

Solid fuel production in the Amur region is also carried out at the Severo-Vostochny section, working off the reserves of the Raichikhinsky brown coal deposit.