Pivdennodonbaska 1 Coal Mine

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The Pivdennodonbaska 1 Coal Mine (also known as the Yuzhnodonbasskaya 1 Coal Mine) is an underground coal mine in Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine.

Location

The map below shows the location of the mine, near Vuhledar, in Volnovakha Raion, Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine.

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Background

The Pivdennodonbaska 1 coal mine is an underground coal mine. It is owned by the state-owned company Mine Management Pivdennodonbaske No.1.[1]

As of March 2020, the state-owned company running the mine was bankrupt, and was being threatened with electricity disconnection by Ukrenergo, the state-owned power company. The mine had not paid its power bills in years, and had only paid miners' salaries intermittently. If the mine's power were cut off, however, water pumps would stop working, and both the mine and the neighbouring Pivdennodonbaska 3 Coal Mine would be flooded within a few days — resulting in an environmental catastrophe, as the groundwater for surrounding towns would be contaminated with iron and chemicals from the mine.[2][3] However the mine appeared to continue operations.

In January 2022, the mine once again found itself under threat of shutdown due to debts for electricity.[4]

Since March 2022 and still as of January 2024, Vuhledar has been a site of intense fighting in the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The mine was therefore assumed Mothballed since the start of the full-scale invasion in February 2022.

The fighting has completely destroyed and depopulated the mining town Vuhledar. Russian media source from January 2024 reported that the Pivdennodonbaska 1 coal mine and the Pivdennodonbaska 3 Coal Mine are used as as defensive facilities by the Ukrainian military forces.[5]

Mine Details

  • Owner: Mine Management Pivdennodonbaske No.1
  • Parent Company: Ministry of Energy of Ukraine[6]
  • Location: Vuhledar, Volnovakha Raion, Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine
  • GPS Coordinates: 47.791167, 37.289284 (exact)
  • Status: Mothballed
  • Production Capacity: 0.48 Mt (2018)[7], 0.168 Mt (2020), 0.215 Mt (2021)[8]
  • Total Reserves:
  • Recoverable Reserves:
  • Coal type: Bituminous (Thermal)
  • Mine Type: Underground
  • Start Year: 1973[9]
  • Workforce:
  • Source of Financing:

Articles and resources

References

  1. "ДП "Південнодонбаська №1" запустила нову лаву із запасами в 500 тис. тонн вугілля". interfax.com.ua. June 2017.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  2. Oksana Rasulova, «Зупиняться шахти ― зупиниться все місто». Як борги за електрику загрожують зруйнувати життя Вугледара, Hromadske, 2 Mar. 2020.
  3. Шахта «Южнодонбасская» №1, MiningWiki.ru, accessed Apr. 2021.
  4. "Шахтоуправління «Південнодонбаське 1» може зону зупинитися – Волинець". glavcom.ua. January 2022.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  5. "Показаны кадры удара ФАБ-1500 по позициям ВСУ на шахте «Южнодонбасская № 3» в районе Угледара". /topwar.ru. 20 January 2024.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  6. "ШАХТОУПРАВЛІННЯ ПІВДЕННОДОНБАСЬКЕ № 1". youcontrol.com.ua/. Retrieved January 2024. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |access-date= (help)CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  7. Business Censor, "DTEK will disconnect from power supply the Yuzhnodonbasskoye No. 1 mine administration for debts", Accessed May 2021
  8. "Звіт ІПВГ України 2021 (page 43)" (PDF). eiti.org. 2023. {{cite web}}: line feed character in |title= at position 18 (help)CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  9. Шахта «Південнодонбаська № 1», Wikipedia (Ukrainian), accessed Mar. 2021.

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