Pivdennodonbaska 3 Coal Mine

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Pivdennodonbaska 3 Coal Mine (Шахта ім. М. С. Сургая) is a mothballed coal mine in Vuhledar, Donetsk, Ukraine.

Location

Table 1: Project-level location details

Mine Name	Location	Coordinates (WGS 84)
Pivdennodonbaska 3 Coal Mine	Vuhledar, Donetsk, Ukraine	47.8239658519789, 37.2861318832815 (exact)

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Project Details

Table 2: Project status

Status	Status Detail	Opening Year	Closing Year
Mothballed	–	1985	–

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
–	0.466	2021	Underground	Longwall	–	730*	2220

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
130	2021	–	–	Bituminous	Thermal	–

Table 5: Ownership and parent company

Owner	Parent Company	Headquarters
Mine Surgaya State Enterprise	Ministry of Energy of Ukraine	Ukraine

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

Background

The Pivdennodonbaska 3 Coal Mine (also known as Yuzhnodobasskaya 3 Coal Mine, or M. S. Surgaya Coal Mine) is an underground coal mine in Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine.

The Pivdennodonbaska 3 coal mine is an underground coal mine. It used to be owned and operated by Donetsk Coal Energy Company, a state-owned company. The activity of Donetsk Coal Energy company was terminated in 2014 and the mine was transferred under the ownership of the Ministry of Energy.

As of August 2019 the mine was was apparently shut down. However later sources indicated that the mine was producing in 2020 and 2021. As per Extractive Industries Transparency report from 2023, the mine produced 0.3 Mt in 2020 and 0.466 Mt in 2021. In 2021, a new longwall was launched at the mine, which should have been sufficient for 3 years.

Since March 2022 and still as of January 2024, the mining town of Vuhledar has been a site of intense fighting in the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The fighting has completely destroyed and depopulated the mining town Vuhledar.

Russian media source from January 2024 reported that the Russian missiles stroke the mine. The Pivdennodonbaska 3 coal mine and the Pivdennodonbaska 1 Coal Mine are used as as defensive facilities by the Ukrainian military forces.

• Owner: Mine Surgaya State Enterprise (ДП Шахта ім. М. С. Сургая)
• Parent Company: Ministry of Energy of Ukraine
• Location: Vodyane, Marinka Raion, Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine
• GPS Coordinates: 47.823848, 37.2859384 (exact)
• Status: Mothballed
• Production Capacity: 1.4 MT/year, 0.3 Mt (2020), 0.466 Mt (2021)
• Total Reserves: 156 MT (2001), 130 Mt (2021)
• Recoverable Reserves:
• Coal type: Bituminous (Thermal)
• Mine Type: Underground
• Start Year: 1985
• Workforce:
• Source of Financing:

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