Berezovskaya Coal Mine

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Berezovskaya Coal Mine (Березовская шахта) is an operating coal mine in Berezovsky, Kemerovsky, Kemerovo, Russia.

Location

Table 1: Project-level location details

Mine Name	Location	Coordinates (WGS 84)
Berezovskaya Coal Mine	Berezovsky, Kemerovsky, Kemerovo, Russia	55.601260864003, 86.2449284635048 (exact)

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Project Details

Table 2: Project status

Status	Status Detail	Opening Year	Closing Year
Operating	–	1958	–

Table 3: Operation details

Note: The asterisk (*) signifies that the value is a GEM estimated figure.

Capacity (Mtpa)	Production (Mtpa)	Year of Production	Mine Type	Mining Method	Mine Size (km2)	Mine Depth (m)	Workforce Size
–	0.54	2022	Underground	–	–	448*	597*

Table 4: Coal resources and destination

Total Reserves (Mt)	Year of Total Reserves Recorded	Total Resources (Mt)	Coalfield	Coal Type	Coal Grade	Primary Consumer/ Destination
–	–	–	Biruylinsk	Bituminous	Met	–

Table 5: Ownership and parent company

Owner	Parent Company	Headquarters
Severny Kuzbass Coal Company JSC	Severny Kuzbass Coal Company JSC	Russia

Note: The above section was automatically generated and is based on data from the GEM April 2024 Global Coal Mine Tracker dataset.

Background

Berezovskaya coal mine (шахта Березовская) is an operating underground mine in Kemerovo Oblast, Russia. The Berezovskaya coal mine is operated by a branch of Severny Kuzbass Coal Company JSC. TalTEK acquired Severny Kuzbass in 2019. In April 2023 media sources announced that Taltek is selling Severny Kuzbass to a private entrepreneur Stanislav Lupiy. However no official deal documents have been prepared yet at that time. The change of ownership then took place.

Pervomayskaya coal mine is another underground mine operated by Severny Kuzbass.

Extracted coal is delivered to the washing plant 'Severnaya'. The enriched coal is then sold on to metallurgical and coke-chemical facilities in Russia.

Production has declined significantly in the last few years, from close to 1 million tonnes in 2019 to 0.45 million tonnes in 2021 and 0.545 million tonnes in 2022. The mine's initial capacity was 1.5 million tonnes per year.

In September 2022, the Federal Service for Environmental and Technical supervision (Rostechnadzor) ordered to suspend the operations of the mine due to higher-than-allowed methane content, inappropriate fixtures of the mined material and insufficient space for emergency exits in the mine. However it appeared that the mine resumed operations later on. Another suspension of operations for in a part of the mine for 30 days was ordered in April 2023.

• Owner: Severny Kuzbass Coal Company JSC
• Parent: Severny Kuzbass Coal Company JSC
• Location: Kemerovsky District, Kemerovo Oblast, Russia
• GPS Coordinates: 55.60126, 86.24492 (exact)
• Status: Operating
• Production: 1 million tonnes (2019), 0.9 million tonnes (2020), 0.45 million tonnes (2021), 0.54 million tonnes (2022)
• Total Resource:
• Mineable Reserves:
• Coal type: Bituminous (Met)
• Mine Size:
• Mine Type: Underground
• Start Year: 1958
• Source of Financing:

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