Bilozerskaya Coal Mine

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Bilozerskaya Coal Mine (Білозерська) is a mothballed coal mine in Bilozers'ke, Dobropillia, Donetsk, Ukraine.

Location

Table 1: Project-level location details

Mine Name	Location	Coordinates (WGS 84)
Bilozerskaya Coal Mine	Bilozers'ke, Dobropillia, Donetsk, Ukraine	48.5182958, 37.0347969 (exact)

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Project Details

Table 2: Project status

Status	Status Detail	Opening Year	Closing Year
Mothballed	–	1954	–

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
–	0.61	2021	Underground	–	–	730*	1422.970287739307*

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
–	–	–	–	Bituminous	Thermal	–

Table 5: Ownership and parent company

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Owner	Parent Company	Headquarters
Bilozirska Mine LLC [100.0%]	DTEK Energy BV	Ukraine

Table 6: Historical production (unit: million tonnes per annum)

ROM or Saleable	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023	2024	2025
–	0.64	1.12	0.85	0.56	0.61	–	–	–	–

Note: The above sections were automatically generated and are based on data from the Global Coal Mine Tracker August 2026 release.

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Background

The Bilozerskaya Coal Mine is underground coal mine in Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine.

According to the Institute for War and Peace Reporting, most Donbas region mines were seized by Russians and pro-Russian rebels in late 2014 and many have endured electricity shortages and flooding ever since. The current output of the Donbas mines, including this one, is no longer transparent, and many are likely non-operational and on hiatus.

The mine is owned by by Bilozerska Mine ALC, a subsidiary of DTEK Energy BV, which is ultimately owned by Ukrainian billionaire Rinat Akhmetov.

In early 2022 it was reported that DTEK made investments in the mine in 2021 that should have allowed it to increase production up to 1.7 million tonnes in 2022, two new longwalls were prepared with reserves of 2.6 million tonnes. Therefore the mine was operational as of early 2022, prior to Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

As per media report from August 2023, DTEK still controlled the Bilozerska mine. As of August 2024, the mine was operating, more than 200 women were working at the mine, 46 underground.

As of October 2024, the mine remained operational and was one of the few active coal mines in Donetsk Oblast, producing dual-purpose coal of G grade for Ukraine's thermal power generation.

In late August and September 2025, the mine came under repeated Russian shelling. A mine transport driver was killed in the late August attack, and following a further strike in September, coal extraction ceased. Attempts were made to preserve the mine's operational condition through the end of November 2025.

On December 4, 2025, the mine was officially de-energised and shut down — one day before the 71st anniversary of its commissioning on December 5, 1954. The shutdown was attributed to the critical security situation, persistent power outages, gas accumulation underground, and the failure of the mine's dewatering system, which made access impossible. More than 1,000 workers were evacuated and offered positions at other DTEK assets in safer regions of Ukraine. At the time of closure, the mine was located approximately 17 kilometres from the front line. Therefore the mine was considered mothballed.

DTEK stated that it remained ready to consider resuming operations once the situation in the region stabilised.

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