Dzhebariki-Khaya Coal Mine

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Dzhebariki-Khaya Coal Mine (шахта Джебарики-Хая) is an operating coal mine in Dzhebariki-Khaya, Tomponsky, Sakha, Russia.

Location

Table 1: Project-level location details

Mine Name	Location	Coordinates (WGS 84)
Dzhebariki-Khaya Coal Mine	Dzhebariki-Khaya, Tomponsky, Sakha, Russia	62.196665, 135.874786 (exact)

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Project Details

Table 2: Project status

Status	Status Detail	Opening Year	Closing Year
Operating	–	2014	–

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
0.4	0.07	2025	Surface	Open Pit	–	50*	248.419813*

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
1.6	2021	93	–	Subbituminous	Thermal	–

Table 5: Ownership and parent company

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Owner	Parent Company	Headquarters
Yakutugol Holding Company JSC [100.0%]	Mechel JSC	Russia

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
ROM	0.2	0.4	0.3	0.3	0.2	0.2*	0.2	–	0.07

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 Dzhebariki-Khaya Coal Mine (разрез Джебарики-Хая) is an operating surface mine in Sakha Republic, Russia.

It is owned and operated by Yakutugol Holding Company, a subsidiary of Mechel.

The mine began in 1940 as an underground mine. In 1973, following an explosion at the underground mine, the mine was switched to opencast mining. In 1985, a new underground mine was reopened. Starting in 2014, Yakutugol began a planned transition in which the underground mine was to be shut down, and the mine would continue solely as an opencast mine. The last coal from the underground mine was extracted in 2016 and the mine started operating as a surface mine in 2017 with capacity of 0.32 million tonnes.

Coal from the Dzhebariki-Khaya coal mine is sold to state housing and municipal services in the northern and central parts of the Republic of Sakha. The mine is only accessible by means of the Aldan River.

In 2023, coal production at the Dzhebariki-Khaya coal mine amounted to approximately 206 thousand tonnes.

Yakutugol Holding Company also owns and operates Kangalassk coal mine and Neryungrinsky coal mine. Total production of the company in 2022 was 4 million tonnes, in 2023 it was 3.1 million tonnes, in 2024 production was at 4.5 million tonnes and in 2025 it equalled 2.9 million tonnes.

In August 2025, delays in coal deliveries under the northern supply programme in the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) were reported, with coal shipments lagging behind schedule by about 30%. The delays were attributed to equipment repairs at the Dzhebariki-Khaya coal mine, where approximately one third of the mining equipment was reported to be out of operation. The reported equipment downtime was cited as a factor that may have contributed to slower coal extraction and loading rates, resulting in reduced coal shipments to river transport routes serving northern districts.

Environmental Issues

Between 2016 and 2023, Yakutugol Holding Company placed production waste at the Dzhebariki-Khaya coal mine on a land plot with an area of approximately 63,200 square metres. In 2023, Rosprirodnadzor (the Federal Service for Supervision of Natural Resource Usage) determined that the waste placement violated the mine’s approved technical development plan and federal legislation on production and consumption waste, as the site was not registered in the State Register of Waste Disposal Facilities. An administrative case was initiated, and the regulator issued an enforcement order requiring remediation of the violation. Yakutugol contested the enforcement action in court, but the challenge was unsuccessful. Rosprirodnadzor subsequently imposed an administrative fine of 40,000 roubles (approximately $520) for improper waste handling and land pollution. However, in June 2025, the Yakutsk City Court annulled the penalty due to procedural violations and terminated the administrative case on the grounds that the statute of limitations for imposing liability had expired. As a result, no final administrative sanction remained in force.

In 2025, coal dust deposition was reported in the settlement of Dzhebariki-Khaya, including along the road leading from the Dzhebariki-Khaya coal mine, near residential buildings, and in the vicinity of a coal-fired boiler plant. Satellite imagery analysis published in early 2026 documented visible coal dust accumulation on snow cover and on the Aldan River in the settlement area. The available reporting did not clearly attribute the observed dust pollution to a single source, and it was described as potentially resulting from a combination of coal mining operations, coal storage, handling and transportation, as well as coal combustion for local heating.

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