Listvyazhnaya Coal Mine

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Listvyazhnaya Coal Mine (шахта Листвяжная) is an operating coal mine in Gramoteino, Belovsky, Kemerovo, Russia.

Location

Table 1: Project-level location details

Mine Name	Location	Coordinates (WGS 84)
Listvyazhnaya Coal Mine	Gramoteino, Belovsky, Kemerovo, Russia	54.521779, 86.405582 (exact)

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Project Details

Table 2: Project status

Status	Status Detail	Opening Year	Closing Year
Operating	–	1956	–

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
5.5	0.4*	2023	Underground	–	–	448*	1700

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
87	–	–	Egozovo-Krasnoyarsk	Bituminous	Thermal	–

Table 5: Ownership and parent company

Owner	Parent Company	Headquarters
Listvyazhnaya Mine LLC	Holding Company Siberian Business Union CJSC	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
Saleable	4.181	4.845	4.967	4.734	4.26*	–	0.4*

Note: The above section was automatically generated and is based on data from the Global Coal Mine Tracker April 2024 release and the September and December supplements.

Background

The Listvyazhnaya coal mine (шахта Листвяжная) is an underground coal mine in Kemerovo Oblast in Russia. The Listvyazhnaya coal mine is operated and owned by SDS UGOL, which in turn is owned by a holding company SDS (Siberian Business Union).

The capacity of the mine is stated 5.5 million tonnes, as per company's website. In 2020 it produced 4.7 million tonnes.

In November 2021, a methane leak at the mine caused a large accident that killed 51 workers and injured 106. The operations were suspended and the consequences of the explosion were being liquidated. The main reason of the explosion has been named as a consistently raised level of methane and poor ventilation equipment. In March 2022, during accident liquidation works, 10 miners were hospitalized, presumably due to insufficient oxygen levels.

In September 2022 the mine has submitted a project to resume mining operations.

The mine resumed operations in April 2023 after receiving numerous technical and safety approvals. The criminal case investigating the tragic accident in 2021 was still on-going, as of April 2023.

In May 2024, the chief engineer of the mine was sentenced to 4 years in prison. Two other defendants were sentenced to about 5 years.

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