Pokrovs'ke Coal Mine

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Pokrovs'ke Coal Mine (Шахтa Покровськe) is a mothballed coal mine in Pokrovsk, Donetsk, Ukraine.

Location

Table 1: Project-level location details

Mine Name	Location	Coordinates (WGS 84)
Pokrovs'ke Coal Mine	Pokrovsk, Donetsk, Ukraine	48.259661, 36.992682 (exact)

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Project Details

Table 2: Project status

Status	Status Detail	Opening Year	Closing Year
Mothballed	–	1990	–

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
–	1.2	2024	Underground	–	–	730.0*	–

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
151.0	2019	257.0	–	Bituminous	Met	–

Table 5: Ownership and parent company

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Owner	Parent Company	Headquarters
Colliery Group Pokrovske	Metinvest BV [100.0%]	Netherlands

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	–	4	5	6.2	6.22	5.6*	5	1.2*	–

Note: The above sections were automatically generated and are based on data from the Global Coal Mine Tracker May 2026 release.

Ownership Tree

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Background

The Pokrovs'ke coal mine is an underground coal mine in the south-east of Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine.

The mine is also known as Krasnoarmeyskaya-Zapadnaya No. 1 coal mine. The mine is owned by private joint-stock company Shakhtoupravleniye Pokrovske, an entity of Pokrovske Coal Company.

Based on a study from 2001, the mine represented one of the largest coal reserves in Ukraine having estimated reserves of 79.5 million tonnes. The mine is also referred to as the Krasnoarmeyskaya-Zapadnaya No. 1 coal mine.

In 2021 Metinvest consolidated 100% of Pokrovske Coal Company. As a result of consolidating the acquired businesses into the Group, Metinvest expected to become fully self-sufficient in coking coal for its hot metal production.

The mine's buildings were shelled in June 2023 by Russian forces, with one fatality and several wounded.

MetInvest's 3Q 2023 reports indicated that the mine is operating. Pokrovske Coal Company recorded a 33% rise in the output of coking coal concentrate for 9m 2023, reaching 2.4 million tonnes. In 2022, coking coal concentrate production was 2.4 million tonnes. However no ordinary coal production was reported in these reports.

A media source from November 2023 stated that the Pokrovske mine operates at reduced capacity due to the war and the inability to export products via traditional routes. However, from January to November 2023, workers managed to mine more than 5 million tons of coking coal. Part of the production goes to Ukrainian metallurgical plants, the rest goes to Eastern Europe.

In February 2024, Metinvest commissioned the 11th longwall for coking coal production in Block 10 of the Pokrovske Colliery, with reserves of approximately 993,000 tonnes and a planned daily output of up to 2,500 tonnes. In the first half of 2024, the mine produced 1.2 million tonnes of coking coal, with a year-end target of 2.8 million tonnes of concentrate.

In early 2025, the mine had to stop production due to the approach of Russian troops. Following the shutdown, Ukrainian steelmakers began sourcing coking coal through imports, primarily from Poland and Australia, as well as from Metinvest's US subsidiary.

As of April 2026, no resumption of production has been reported. The Pokrovske coal mine remained classified as mothballed.

Associated Coal Mine Methane Mitigation Projects

Some coal mines have installed infrastructure which can use and/or destroy some methane emissions associated with mining. In 2024, the Global Methane Initiative reported that this mine had a mitigation project associated with it. This methodology page describes how GEM classified these projects and linked them with coal mines in the Global Coal Mine Tracker.

Table MM1: Methane mitigation projects

Mitigation Project Name	Project Type	GMI Reported Status	GMI Reported Start Year
Pokrovske (Krasnoarmeiskaya Zap) CHP Project- Ukraine	utilization	Unknown	2008

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
2024-04-08T08:32:43+00	CarbonMapper, emi20240408t083243p06009-A	48.259, 36.99046	623.3876 kg/hr	Donetska Region Methane Observation 2024-04-08, 1
2024-10-07T08:27:56+00	CarbonMapper, emi20241007t082756p06023-C	48.25968, 36.99099	1457.791 kg/hr	Donetska Region Methane Observation 2024-10-07, 1

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