Delići, Peljave-Tobut, and Baljak Coal Mines

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Delići, Peljave-Tobut, and Baljak Coal Mines is a proposed coal mine in Ugljevik, Republika Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Location

Table 1: Project-level location details

Mine Name	Location	Coordinates (WGS 84)
Delići, Peljave-Tobut, and Baljak Coal Mines	Ugljevik, Republika Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina	44.6655036, 18.98854391 (approximate)

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Project Details

Table 2: Project status

Status	Status Detail	Project Type	Opening Year	Closing Year
Proposed	Announced	New	–	–

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
3.5	–	–	Surface	–	–	50*	*

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
–	–	–	–	Lignite	Thermal	–

Table 5: Ownership and parent company

Owner	Parent Company	Headquarters
Comsar Energy Republika Sprska	Comsar Energy [90%]; Rite Ugljevik [10%]	Cyprus

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

Background

Delići, Peljave-Tobut and Baljak Coal Mines are proposed surface coal mines in Ugljevik, Republika Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina. 

They can also be referred to as Comsar Energy coal mines or Ugljevik Istok 2. In August 2012, Comsar Energy Republika Sprksa - a joint venture company between Comsar Energy (90%) with RiTE Ugljevik (10%), a subsidiary of Elektroprivreda Republike Srpske (ERS) – was unveiled. The company was formed to add two new 300 megawatt (MW) coal-fired units to the existing 300 MW power station.

In 2014, Comsar Energy Republika Srpska said the company had begun the construction of the Ugljevik power station (Ugljevik 3), with a projected operation date of 2016. The station would be fuelled by new surface mines in Delići, Peljave-Tobut, and Baljak in the Ugljevik basin, which would be built simultaneously alongside the power plant by Comsar Energy, with plans for a total annual coal production of 3.5 million tonnes.

On June 18, 2021, China National Electric Engineering Corp signed an EPC contract to build the 2x350 MW thermal plant + open pit coal mine. However later in September 2021, China announced it would stop developing new coal power projects outside of its own borders.

The power plant project's fate has been up in the air for several years, with conflicting decisions taken (see Ugljevik power station). However in early October 2023, the Ministry changed its mind and issued yet another environmental permit for the project, according to Bankwatch report.

In December 2023 the Ministry of Energy and Mining approved the exploitation of coal for Comsar Energy Republika Sprska, after which several hundred workers of the existing Ugljevik coal mine held a strike, claiming that their "company will be left without enough coal to generate electricity and operated stable if a Russian private company is allowed to exploit coal in their deposit". However later it was confirmed that the Russian company still cannot start exploitation as it doesn't have approved project documentation and adequate permit.

• Owner: Comsar Energy Republika Sprska
• Parent Company: Comsar Energy (90%), Rite Ugljevik (10%)
• Location: Ugljevik, Republika Srpksa, Bosnia and Herzegovina
• Coordinates: 44.6655036, 18.98854931 (approximate)
• Status: Proposed
• Production: 3.5 million tonnes (capacity)
• Total Resource:
• Total Reserves:
• Coal Type: LIGNITE (Thermal)
• Mine Type: SURFACE
• Start Year:
• Source of Financing:

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