Krasnolymanska Coal Mine

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Krasnolymanska Coal Mine (шахта Краснолиманська) is a mothballed coal mine in Rodynske, Pokrovsk, Donetsk, Ukraine.

Location

Table 1: Project-level location details

Mine Name	Location	Coordinates (WGS 84)
Krasnolymanska Coal Mine	Rodynske, Pokrovsk, Donetsk, Ukraine	48.362948851646, 37.242392708826 (exact)

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Project Details

Table 2: Project status

Status	Status Detail	Opening Year	Closing Year
Mothballed	–	1958	–

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
1.8	1	2023	Underground	–	–	728	1573.813191468969*

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
65.4	–	–	–	Bituminous	Met	–

Table 5: Ownership and parent company

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Owner	Parent Company	Headquarters
State Enterprise Coal Company Krasnolymanskaya [100.0%]	State Enterprise Coal Company Krasnolymanskaya	Ukraine

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

ROM or Saleable	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023	2024	2025
–	2	1.04	0	0.13	0.29	–	–	–	–

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 Krasnolymanska coal mine is an underground coal mine located in Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine. The mine used to be owned by state enterprise Coal Company Krasnolimanskaya JSC. According to a study dated 2001, the coal mine had the largest coal reserves in Ukraine, estimated at 85.1 million tonnes, and was producing 3.5 million tonnes per year at the time. The mine produces bituminous coking coal.

Already from 2003, a portion of the mine has been operated by a private company Krasnolimanskoye LLC, which concluded a coal seam lease agreement with the state-owned enterprise with total reserves of 65.4 million tonnes of coal. This partnership has been tumultuous involving conflicted individuals and legal cases. As of 2017, both the state-owned company and the private company were extracting coal.

Later sources stated that production by the state-owned company stopped in 2018 and coal was extracted by Krasnolimanskoye LLC only. Coal mining by the state-owned enterprise never began, while the private investor did not confirm the status of fulfilment of its investment obligations under the agreement. Krasnolimanskaya LLC claims that it has legal rights to the reserves and is operating well and paying taxes.

Extract Industries Transparency Initative's report stated that in 2020 only the privately-owned Krasnolimanskoye produced 0.124 Mt of coal while the state-owned Coal Company Krasnolymanskaya did not produce anything. However for 2021, the report showed that both companies extracted coal - 0.287 Mt by the private Krasnolymanskoye and only 0.002 Mt by the state-owned company.

In September 2022, the Eastern Appellate Commercial Court ruled that the state enterprise owed Krasnolimanskoye LLC approximately UAH 1.107 billion (approximately $30 million), after the private company argued that the state enterprise had extracted coal from its seams without authorisation between 2014 and 2017.

In October 2023, the Ministry of Energy of Ukraine appointed a new head of Coal Company Krasnolimanskaya whose priority was to restore state coal production. The Ministry of Energy said it was preparing for "official privatization" of the company with capacity of 2.2 Mtpa, while the current arrangement was said to be 'parasytical'. The miners protested against this appointment by suspending production and it appeared that the appointment was recalled a few weeks a later.

As of mid-2024, the mine was said to be producing 80–100 thousand tonnes of coal per month.

The mine is located in close proximity to active front lines. By April 2025, Russian attacks had caused significant damage to the surface infrastructure, including destruction of administrative and production buildings. The mine had been de-energised, and workers had been evacuated to other regions of Ukraine. As a result of the mine's suspension and destruction, Ukraine lost access to a major source of domestic coking coal, increasing dependence on imported metallurgical coal and raising the cost of Ukrainian steel production.

Given the mine's de-energisation, the physical destruction of its surface infrastructure, the insolvency proceedings opened against Krasnolimanskoye LLC in March 2025, the ongoing combat in and around Rodynske, and the absence of any evidence of resumed production, GEM classifies the Krasnolymanska coal mine as mothballed as of April 2026.

Legal Issues and Insolvency

In May 2024, the State Bureau of Investigations (DBR) and the National Police arrested Vitaliy Kropachov, the beneficial owner of Krasnolimanskoye LLC and the Ukrdoninvest group of companies. Investigators alleged that Kropachov and associates formed a criminal organisation that prevented the state enterprise from operating and drove it towards bankruptcy, causing damage to the state of more than UAH 2 billion (over $50 million) through coal sector fraud and tax evasion. Kropachov denied the charges.

In March 2025, the Commercial Court of Donetsk Region opened insolvency proceedings against Krasnolimanskoye LLC, initiated by two Dnipro-based creditors. In April 2025, the DBR completed its criminal investigation and transmitted an indictment to court, alleging that the scheme had caused state losses exceeding UAH 2 billion.

Associated Coal Mine Methane Mitigation Projects

Some coal mines have installed infrastructure which can use and/or destroy some methane emissions associated with mining. In 2024, the Global Methane Initiative reported that this mine had a mitigation project associated with it. This methodology page describes how GEM classified these projects and linked them with coal mines in the Global Coal Mine Tracker.

Table MM1: Methane mitigation projects

Mitigation Project Name	Project Type	GMI Reported Status	GMI Reported Start Year
Krasnolymanska Mine Boiler Fuel Project - Ukraine	utilization	Shut down	2008

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