Oktyabrskaya Coal Mine

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Oktyabrskaya Coal Mine (шахта Октябрьская (ШУ Шахта Заречная, Шахта Полысаевская-2)) is an operating coal mine in Polysayevo, Polysayevo Urban, Kemerovo, Russia.

Location

Table 1: Project-level location details

Mine Name	Location	Coordinates (WGS 84)
Oktyabrskaya Coal Mine	Polysayevo, Polysayevo Urban, Kemerovo, Russia	54.57231, 86.251688 (exact)

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Project Details

Table 2: Project status

Status	Status Detail	Opening Year	Closing Year
Operating	–	1951	–

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
–	–	2023	Underground	Longwall	–	390	*

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
43.5	–	161.5	–	Bituminous	Thermal	–

Table 5: Ownership and parent company

Owner	Parent Company	Headquarters
Coal Company Sila Sibiri JSC	Coal Company Sila Sibiri JSC [100%]	Russia

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

Background

Oktyabrskaya Coal Mine (шахта Октябрьская) is an underground mine in Kemerovo Oblast, Russia.

The Oktyabrskaya coal mine section used to be part of Zarechnaya Coal Company, which went bankrupt in 2017. Oktyabrskaya (often referred to as Oktyabrsky section) together with the Zarechnaya coal mine were sold in July 2021 to the Coal Company Sila Sibiri (Power of Siberia). The Oktyabrskaya coal mine is a section of Zarechnaya coal mine. These are the only coal mines of Sila Sibiri.

Historically, most of the coal from this mine supplied Russian thermal power plants.

It appeared that the mine was not operating in the first half of 2022 as reported production stood at 0 in an industry report. The mine was therefore considered Mothballed as of October 2022.

However reports from 2023 indicated that the mine was operating. According to the company's representative, the longwall of Oktyabrskaya coal mine with reserves of 1.31 million tonnes of coal of "G" and "DG" energy grades was commissioned in spring 2023, and mining was carried out only from this longwall. It was planned to produce about 350 thousand tonnes of coal from the longwall face every month. Operations were temporarily suspended at the mine in April 2023, but were shortly resumed.

Total coal production of Sila Sibiri was reported at 2.5 million tonnes in 2022. In 2023, the company's production declined to 2.1 million tonnes. In 1H 2024, the company's coal production increased by 25% to 1.8 million tonnes.

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