Osinnikovskaya Coal Mine

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Osinnikovskaya Coal Mine (Осинниковская шахта) is an operating coal mine in Ossiniki, Ossiniki Urban, Kemerovo, Russia.

Location

Table 1: Project-level location details

Mine Name	Location	Coordinates (WGS 84)
Osinnikovskaya Coal Mine	Ossiniki, Ossiniki Urban, Kemerovo, Russia	53.645605, 87.415853 (exact)

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Project Details

Table 2: Project status

Status	Status Detail	Opening Year	Closing Year
Operating	–	1932	–

Table 3: Operation details

Capacity (Mtpa)	Production (Mtpa)	Year of Production	Mine Type	Mining Method	Mine Size (km2)	Mine Depth (m)	Workforce Size
–	1.2	2023	Underground	Longwall	–	800	1100

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
69	2022	–	–	Bituminous	Met	Steel Plant

Table 5: Ownership and parent company

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Owner	Parent Company	Headquarters
Shakhta Osinnikovskaya LLC [100.0%]	Raspadskaya PJSC	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
Saleable	–	–	1.33*	1.89	1.38	1.17	1.2	–	–

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 Osinnikovskaya coal mine (Осинниковская шахта) is an underground mine in Kemerovo Oblast, Russia. The mine is owned and operated by Shakhta Osinnikovskaya LLC, a subsidiary of Raspadskaya PJSC, which in turn is owned by Evraz. Evraz announced in December 2021 that it is planning to spin off Raspadskaya, but these plans were cancelled in March 2022 due to the sanctions against Russia.

The mine is part of the Yuzhkuzbassugol coal mining complex.

It is one of Kuzbass’s oldest and deepest mines operating since 1932. Here, the main mining operations are carried out at a depth of 600–800 and high-quality coal is mined for the production of metallurgical coke.

In March 2022, the mine was shut down for 90 days due to hazardous working conditions and the death of one miner. Nevertheless production in 2022 decreased only marginally from 1.382 Mt in 2021 to 1.17 Mt in 2022. The company also attributed the decrease in production to increased methane content in coal seams as well as difficult geological conditions.

In its 2021 annual report, Raspadskaya Coal Company stated that an investment project will continue at Osinnikovskaya coal mine, aiming to transition to new reservoirs, maintain the current level of production and purchase equipment. In June 2023, it was reported that the mine is about to launch the longest longwall in its history with a length of 300 metres. Coal extraction from the previous longwall face was completed in spring and preparations began for the transition to the new longwall. The main difficulty is the large amount of equipment, which has to be moved from one block of the mine to the other. The plan was to put the new longwall into operation at the end of July 2023.

In December 2025, Osinnikovskaya commissioned a new longwall with reserves of over 200,000 tonnes of coking coal, reaching a depth of 900 metres — the deepest active longwall in both Raspadskaya and the wider Kuzbass region. Preparations for the longwall began in January 2024, with miners driving 1,300 metres of underground workings. Completion of the longwall was planned for February 2026, after which operations were scheduled to transition to the E6 coal seam, with estimated reserves of 10.5 million tonnes.

Raspadskaya's total coal output across all its mines declined by 2% in 2024 to 18.5 million tonnes, with sales volumes falling 11% to 12.9 million tonnes, attributed to sanctions pressure following the company's inclusion in the US Treasury sanctions list in August 2024.

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
2025-03-14T05:40:48+00	CarbonMapper, tan20250314t054048c00s4001-B	53.65568, 87.43199	544.4123 kg/hr	Kemerovskaja Administrative Region Methane Observation 2025-03-14, 1
2025-03-16T05:54:20+00	CarbonMapper, tan20250316t055420c00s4001-H	53.65592, 87.43229	1269.025 kg/hr	Kemerovskaja Administrative Region Methane Observation 2025-03-16, 3
2025-04-18T05:45:46+00	CarbonMapper, tan20250418t054546c00s4001-A	53.65591, 87.43258	1354.148 kg/hr	Kemerovskaja Administrative Region Methane Observation 2025-04-18, 1
2025-04-25T05:46:39+00	CarbonMapper, tan20250425t054639c00s4001-C	53.65541, 87.43125	846.8816 kg/hr	Kemerovskaja Administrative Region Methane Observation 2025-04-25, 4
2025-05-23T05:50:43+00	CarbonMapper, tan20250523t055043c76s4001-D	53.65597, 87.43135	2039.045 kg/hr	Kemerovskaja Administrative Region Methane Observation 2025-05-23, 5

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