Chervonogradska Coal Mine

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Chervonogradska Coal Mine (Червоноградская) is an operating coal mine in Chervonograd, Lviv, Ukraine.

Location

Table 1: Project-level location details

Mine Name	Location	Coordinates (WGS 84)
Chervonogradska Coal Mine	Chervonograd, Lviv, Ukraine	50.3989651177589, 24.1918751346083 (exact)

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Project Details

Table 2: Project status

Status	Status Detail	Opening Year	Closing Year
Operating	–	1971	–

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
–	0.5	2021	Underground	–	–	730*	1000

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
30	2021	–	Lvov-Volyn	Bituminous	Thermal	–

Table 5: Ownership and parent company

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Owner	Parent Company	Headquarters
Lvivgughiliya State Enterprise [100.0%]	Ministry of Energy of Ukraine	Ukraine

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

Note: The asterisk (*) indicates that the value is an estimated figure based on various factors, including the company's forecasted or reported monthly or quarterly production data, etc.

ROM or Saleable	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023	2024	2025
–	–	–	–	0.5*	0.5*	–	–	–	–

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

Chervonogradska Coal Mine is an underground coal mine in Lviv Oblast, Ukraine. The mine is located in the Lviv-Volyn coal basin.

In 2020 and 2021, the mine's production was said to be about 0.5 Mt. During its 50 years of operations achieved in 2021, the mine produced 29.6 million tonnes of coal (0.6 per annum on average). Total production by Lvivgughiliya was 1.173 Mt in 2021.

The miners of Chervonogradska protested in December 2021 as they haven't been paid salaries for 3 months.

Ukraine promised to abandon coal mining by 2035. It is supported on this path by a number of international structures, in particular, the German Society for International Cooperation (GIZ). The project to transform the Chervonograd coal microregion within the framework of the Program "Supporting Structural Changes in the Coal Regions of Ukraine" is being implemented by the German Society for International Cooperation (GIZ) on behalf of the Federal Ministry of Economy and Climate Protection of Germany. It appeared that Velikomostovskaya Coal Mine was selected as the pilot one for transformation.

As of December 2023, there were six state-owned mines in the Chervonohrad microregion and one private joint-stock company, the Nadiya mine in Sosnivka. But over the past few years, the volume of coal mined by them has significantly decreased. There was no further on the mine and whether it was operating during 2024 and 2025, it was presumed to be still operating (as of April 2025).

The mine continued operating through 2024 and into 2025 as part of Lvivvuhillya. No production data specific to the Chervonohradska mine for this period was available in public sources.

By early 2026, a crisis emerged at the Chervonohrad Central Washing Plant, the sole processing facility serving all mines of the Lviv-Volyn basin. According to trade union representatives and members of parliament, the plant was effectively shut down due to interference by shadow structures, with wage arrears accumulating and coal processing disrupted. Mykhailo Volynets, head of the Independent Trade Union of Miners of Ukraine, stated that the plant's stoppage was already affecting coal output at the basin's mines, including those of Lvivvuhillya, and warned that the situation posed a direct threat to preparation for the 2026–2027 heating season. Lvivvuhillya was also reported to carry wage arrears of 142 million hryvnias.

In March 2026, Ukraine's Ministry of Energy also initiated the transfer of Lvivvuhillya to the State Property Fund for privatization, alongside Volynvuhillya and Dobropillyavugillya-vydobutok, with the aim of attracting private investors. Therefore as of April 2026, , the mine was presumed to be operating.

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