Kazakhstanskaya Coal Mine

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Kazakhstanskaya Coal Mine (Казахстанская) is an operating coal mine in Shakhtinsk, Karaganda, Kazakhstan.

Location

Table 1: Project-level location details

Mine Name	Location	Coordinates (WGS 84)
Kazakhstanskaya Coal Mine	Shakhtinsk, Karaganda, Kazakhstan	49.75044, 72.563474 (exact)

The map below shows the exact location of the coal mine:

Project Details

Table 2: Project status

Status	Status Detail	Opening Year	Closing Year
Operating	–	1969	–

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
10	0.8	2025	Underground	Longwall	–	500*	1500

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
36	2021	308	Karaganda	Bituminous	Met	Steel Plant

Table 5: Ownership and parent company

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Owner	Parent Company	Headquarters
Qarmet JSC [100.0%]	Qazaqstan Steel Group LLP	Kazakhstan

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

ROM or Saleable	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023	2024	2025
Saleable	–	–	–	1.17	–	–	–	–	0.8

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

Ownership Tree

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Background

The Kazakhstanskaya Coal Mine (шахта Казахстанская) is an underground coal mine in Karaganda Region, Kazakhstan. It used to be owned and operated by ArcelorMittal Temirtau JSC, the Kazakh subsidiary of ArcelorMittal. It is part of ArcelorMittal's Karaganda Mine Complex, which supplies coal to the ArcelorMittal Temirtau steel plant.

Following the tragic accident at Kostenko coal mine on 28 October 2023 killing 45 people, Kazakh President ordered his cabinet to stop investment cooperation with ArcelorMittal Temirtau. Arcelor Mittal confirmed on October 28th that they have been in discussions with the government and recently signed a preliminary agreement for a transaction that will transfer ownership of ArcelorMittal Temirtau JSC to the Republic of Kazakhstan. The sale was completed in December 2023. Under the terms of the transaction, on closing ArcelorMittal has received consideration of $286 million and a further $250 million as repayment of outstanding intra-group dues. ArcelorMittal will also receive an additional sovereign-fund guaranteed payment of $450 million, paid in four equal annual instalments, as repayment of an intra-group loan. The new owners is Qazaqstan Investment Corporation, as state-owned direct investment fund which is owned by the national holding Baiterek. Subsequently Qazaqstan Steel Group has become a new investor in the facilities of ArcelorMittal Temirtau. Qazaqstan Steel Group is owned by a Kazakh businessman Andrey Lavrentyev. At the same time, ArcelorMittal Temirtau JSC was renamed Qarmet.

Incidents

In 2017, 3 miners die due to gas and coal burst.

On August 17, 2023, a conveyor belt in the mine caught fire in the workings of the D6 coal slope. 227 people were in the mine, of which 222 were evacuated. 13 people were injured, 5 people died. ArcelorMittal Temirtau JSC was found guilty of the accident. As of October 2023, the fire still continued in the mine, destroying equipment and resulting in rock collapses. Extinguishing the fire may take up to a year. Special teams in the mine were trying to extinguish the fire in extremely difficult and dangerous conditions. Blocking walls were being installed made of special gypsum, 25 such walls were installed already. They are meant to prevent the access of oxygen to the areas with fire. It was anticipated that there will be no production in the mine while the fire continues and for at least one year. 40% of workers were to remain employed while the rest were to be transferred to other entities of ArcelorMittal Temirtau JSC.

Operations

Information on the mine's operations is very limited. In 2020, production was reported at 1.17 million tonnes and there was a plan to increase production to 1.8Mt by 2026. In the second half of 2023 and most of 2024, the mine was not producing.

In February 2025, Qarmet reported that the area affected by the fire (as much as 40 kilometers of mine workings) has been isolated. To prevent new accidents, the mine is installing a state-of-the-art nitrogen system that neutralizes the explosive environment, minimizing the risk of fire. In November 2024, mining was resumed at one of the longwalls of another seam and the miners are preparing to launch other longwalls with total reserves of 2.5 million tons of coal. These projects will start in 2026 and 2027. Planned production for 2025 was said to be 0.8 Mt. The mine's status was therefore revised from 'Mothballed' to 'Operating'.

Qarmet Company

A media report from June 2023 stated that coal production by ArcelorMittal's eight underground mines in Kazakhstan declined from 11 million tonnes in 2015 to 7 million tonnes in 2022, and 4 out of 8 mines may close. Kazakhstanskaya was mentioned as one of them.

In 2024, the new entity Qarmet under the new investor and management team extracted 6.5 million tonnes of coal and launched 6 additional longwalls.

In June 2025, Qarmet announced a five-year investment plan of $3.5 billion, of which $300 million was allocated to mine safety, with remaining funds directed at environmental initiatives and production modernisation.

In 2025, Qarmet's Coal Department extracted 7.5 million tonnes of coal across all eight mines.

By 2028, the company planned to produce 9 million tonnes of coal.

Coal Mine Boundaries and Methane Sources

Global Energy Monitor researchers have identified coal mine boundary/boundaries and potential sources of coal mine methane (CMM) for this mine. These research results can be used to drive CMM attribution and mitigation efforts, particularly when combined with remotely sensed methane plume locations and mine ownership data. Explore the results with the embedded map at the top of this page by clicking on the mine boundary polygon or the CMM placemarkers to reveal more details. A detailed description of this research can be found in Coal Mine Boundaries and Methane Sources. This data is also available as a downloadable companion dataset to the Global Coal Mine Tracker and the Global Methane Emitters Tracker.

Table SMP1: Coal mine boundaries and methane sources data

ID	Mine feature category	Mine feature subcategory	Description	Coordinates precision	Data source date
M1439.B1	mine boundary	underground	Kazakhstanskaya coal mine boundary	extracted	2025-07-01 00:00:00
M1439.P3	ventilation system	vent	ventilation shaft possibly shared or part of the adjacent Tentekskaya mine	extracted	2023-06-01 00:00:00
M1439.P4	ventilation system	shaft	possible group of 4 ventilation shafts	extracted	2023-05-01 00:00:00
M1439.P6	degasification system	drainage station	possible gas drainage station	extracted	2023-06-01 00:00:00
M1439.P8	other	shaft	possible shaft	extracted	2023-05-01 00:00:00
M1439.P9	other	shaft	possible shaft	extracted	2023-05-01 00:00:00
M1439.P10	other	shaft	possible access shaft	extracted	2023-05-01 00:00:00
M1439.P11	other	slope access or production shaft	possible slope or access	extracted	2023-05-01 00:00:00
M1439.P12	ventilation system	vent	ventilation shaft	extracted	2024-06-01 00:00:00
M1439.P13	other	shaft	shaft	extracted	2023-06-01 00:00:00

Table SMP2: Coal mine boundaries and methane sources data (continued)

Coal mine boundaries and methane sources were last researched for this mine on Dec 26, 2025

ID	Notes
M1439.B1	The Kazakhstanskaya mine is part of the Karaganda Coal Mines Complex that includes eight underground coal mines and the Vostochnaya coal preparation plant. These mines are: Kostenko, Kuzembaeva, Saranskaya, Abayskaya, Kazakhstanskaya, Lenina, Shakhtinskaya and Tentekskaya coal mines. (https://web.archive.org/web/20250207022321/https://miningdataonline.com/property/1772/Karaganda-Coal-Mines-Complex.aspx). The boundary was extracted from the Unified Platform for Subsoil Use, Ministry of Industry and Construction of the Republic of Kazakhstan https://web.archive.org/web/2/https://minerals.e-qazyna.kz/en/contracts-map. The Kazakhstanskaya boundary overlaps with the adjacent Lenina and Tentekskaya mine boundaries. Searching for the Kazakhstanskaya mine contact boundary in the search system was not effective. Instead, the boundaries for Lenina and Tentekskaya mines were first identified, and then the Kazakhstanskaya deduced. The boundary is based on object 144, issued May 12 1997, of work type 'contracts mountain'. Section 1 General Information about the Enterprise, on page 14 of the 2020 Environmental Impact Assessment https://web.archive.org/web/2/https://www.gov.kz/uploads/2021/1/15/a529244bb914a677678f4ebd32056665_original.58771642.pdf refers to the approved technical boundaries in terms of coal seams; the dimensions of the mine field are given as 2500-7000m x 2500-5600m (or 6.25 sq km - 39 sq km). The area of the extracted boundary is 29.5 sq km which lies within this range.
M1439.P3	Identified visually from Google Earth Pro satellite imagery.
M1439.P4	Identified visually from Google Earth Pro satellite imagery.
M1439.P6	Identified visually from Google Earth Pro satellite imagery.
M1439.P8	Identified visually from Google Earth Pro satellite imagery.
M1439.P9	Identified visually from Google Earth Pro satellite imagery.
M1439.P10	Identified visually from Google Earth Pro satellite imagery.
M1439.P11	Identified visually from Google Earth Pro satellite imagery.
M1439.P12	Identified visually from Google Earth Pro satellite imagery.
M1439.P13	Identified visually from Google Earth Pro satellite imagery.

Methane Plumes Detected Nearby

Global Energy Monitor researchers analyze satellite-detected methane plumes in order to determine whether they have been observed at or near the site of GEM energy assets. The satellite data provider creates imagery of individual methane plumes and estimates their emission rates at the time of observation. GEM has reviewed many of these plume detections against Google Earth imagery and GEM’s own energy infrastructure tracker data. The following table lists methane plumes which are associated with the energy asset or facility based on distance and manual review. (A full description of the analysis process is available in the Global Methane Emitters Tracker methodology wiki page.)

Table M1: Plume details

For additional details on this individual plume identification and others, see the Global Methane Emitters Tracker.

Observation date	Satellite data provider	Location of plume origin	Methane emissions rate	Additional plume information
2025-05-03T06:41:25+00	CarbonMapper, tan20250503t064125c00s4001-D	49.77034, 72.56858	1101.447 kg/hr	Qaraghandy Region Methane Observation 2025-05-03, 1

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