Shakhtinskaya Coal Mine

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Shakhtinskaya Coal Mine (Шахтинская) is an operating coal mine in Shakhtinsk, Bukhar-Zhyrau, Karaganda, Kazakhstan.

Location

Table 1: Project-level location details

Mine Name	Location	Coordinates (WGS 84)
Shakhtinskaya Coal Mine	Shakhtinsk, Bukhar-Zhyrau, Karaganda, Kazakhstan	49.764274, 72.617826 (exact)

The map below shows the exact location of the coal mine:

Project Details

Table 2: Project status

Status	Status Detail	Opening Year	Closing Year
Operating	–	1973	–

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
–	1.06	2024	Underground	Longwall	–	500.0*	1227.0*

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
24.0	2021	51.0	Karaganda	Bituminous	Met	Steel Plant

Table 5: Ownership and parent company

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Owner	Parent Company	Headquarters
Qarmet JSC	Qazaqstan Steel Group LLP	Kazakhstan

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	–	–	–	1.3*	–	–	–	1.06	–

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

Ownership Tree

This ownership tree is part of the Global Energy Ownership Tracker, a project of Global Energy Monitor.

Background

The Shakhtinskaya Coal Mine (Шахта Шахтинская) is an underground coal mine in Karaganda Region, Kazakhstan. It was owned by ArcelorMittal Temirtau JSC, the Kazakh subsidiary of ArcelorMittal. It is part of ArcelorMittal's Karaganda Mine Complex, which supplies coal to the ArcelorMittal Temirtau steel plant.

Karaganda City is located approximately 35 kilometres to the northeast. Following the tragic accident at Kostenko coal mine on 28 October 2023 killing 45 people, Kazakh President ordered his cabinet to stop investment cooperation with ArcelorMittal Temirtau. Arcelor Mittal confirmed on October 28th that they have been in discussions with the government and recently signed a preliminary agreement for a transaction that will transfer ownership of ArcelorMittal Temirtau JSC to the Republic of Kazakhstan. The sale was completed in December 2023. Under the terms of the transaction, on closing ArcelorMittal has received consideration of $286 million and a further $250 million as repayment of outstanding intra-group dues. ArcelorMittal will also receive an additional sovereign-fund guaranteed payment of $450 million, paid in four equal annual instalments, as repayment of an intra-group loan. The new owners is Qazaqstan Investment Corporation, as state-owned direct investment fund which is owned by the national holding Baiterek. Subsequently Qazaqstan Steel Group has become a new investor in the facilities of ArcelorMittal Temirtau. Qazaqstan Steel Group is owned by a Kazakh businessman Andrey Lavrentyev. At the same time, ArcelorMittal Temirtau JSC was renamed Qarmet.

Operations

ArcelorMittal's website stated the mine's capacity at 1.8 million tonnes per annum, as of 2021. Business plan for 2019 was to produce 1.6 million tonnes. In October 2020, it was reported that the mine reached 1 million production mark since the start of the year.

A new longwall was launched at the mine in September 2023. In January 2025 it was reported that the mine produced more than 1.067 million tonnes in 2024.

In 2025, a new longwall was commissioned at the mine with coal reserves of between 700,000 and 1 million tonnes, as part of Qarmet's programme to bring all eight of its coal mines to full production capacity by August 2025.

In 2025, coal production across all mines in the city of Shakhtinsk, which includes Shakhtinskaya mine, grew by 33.6% to reach a combined total of 3.6 million tonnes.

Qarmet Company

A media report from June 2023 stated that coal production by ArcelorMittal's eight underground mines in Kazakhstan declined from 11 million tonnes in 2015 to 7 million tonnes in 2022, and 4 out of 8 mines are planned for closure

In 2024, the new entity Qarmet under the new investor and management team extracted 6.5 million tonnes of coal and launched 6 additional longwalls.

As per August 2024 reporting, on the instructions of the president of Kazakhstan, the operation of all eight mines of Qarmet was restored in the shortest possible time and large-scale work has begun to strengthen industrial safety.

In June 2025, Qarmet announced a five-year investment plan of $3.5 billion, of which $300 million was allocated to mine safety, with remaining funds directed at environmental initiatives and production modernisation.

In 2025, Qarmet's Coal Department extracted 7.5 million tonnes of coal across all eight mines.

By 2028, the company planned to produce 9 million tonnes of coal.

Coal Mine Boundaries and Methane Sources

Global Energy Monitor researchers have identified coal mine boundary/boundaries and potential sources of coal mine methane (CMM) for this mine. These research results can be used to drive CMM attribution and mitigation efforts, particularly when combined with remotely sensed methane plume locations and mine ownership data. Explore the results with the embedded map at the top of this page by clicking on the mine boundary polygon or the CMM placemarkers to reveal more details. A detailed description of this research can be found in Coal Mine Boundaries and Methane Sources. This data is also available as a downloadable companion dataset to the Global Coal Mine Tracker and the Global Methane Emitters Tracker.

Table SMP1: Coal mine boundaries and methane sources data

ID	Mine feature category	Mine feature subcategory	Description	Coordinates precision	Data source date
M1440.B1	mine boundary	underground	Shakhtinskaya coal mine boundary	extracted	2025-04-15 00:00:00
M1440.P1	ventilation system	shaft	ventilation shaft	extracted	2023-06-01 00:00:00
M1440.P2	ventilation system	shaft	ventilation shaft	extracted	2023-06-01 00:00:00
M1440.P3	degasification system	drainage station	drainage station	extracted	2023-06-01 00:00:00
M1440.P4	degasification system	drainage station	drainage stations	extracted	2023-06-01 00:00:00
M1440.P5	other	slope access or production shaft	possible mine production shaft	extracted	2023-06-01 00:00:00
M1440.P6	ventilation system	shaft	possible ventilation shaft	extracted	2023-06-01 00:00:00
M1440.P7	other	not coal mine related	boiler plant	extracted	2023-06-01 00:00:00

Table SMP2: Coal mine boundaries and methane sources data (continued)

Coal mine boundaries and methane sources were last researched for this mine on Apr 15, 2025

ID	Notes
M1440.B1	The Shakhtinskaya mine is part of the Karaganda Coal Mines Complex that includes eight underground coal mines and the Vostochnaya coal preparation plant. These mines are: Kostenko, Kuzembaeva, Saranskaya, Abayskaya, Kazakhstanskaya, Lenina, Shakhtinskaya and Tentekskaya coal mines, according to https://web.archive.org/web/20250207022321/https://miningdataonline.com/property/1772/Karaganda-Coal-Mines-Complex.aspx. The boundary was extracted from the Unified Platform for Subsoil Use, Ministry of Industry and Construction of the Republic of Kazakhstan https://web.archive.org/web/2/https://minerals.e-qazyna.kz/en/contracts-map and based on object 144, issued May 12 1997, of work type 'contracts mountain' for JSC UD Arcelor Mittal Temirtau. The mine boundary shares a common technical border with Tentekskaya mine. The area of the boundary is 24 sq km.
M1440.P1	Identified visually from Google Earth Pro satellite imagery.
M1440.P2	Identified visually from Google Earth Pro satellite imagery.
M1440.P3	Identified visually from Google Earth Pro satellite imagery.
M1440.P4	Identified visually from Google Earth Pro satellite imagery.
M1440.P5	Identified visually from Google Earth Pro satellite imagery.
M1440.P6	Identified visually from Google Earth Pro satellite imagery.
M1440.P7	Identified visually from Google Earth Pro satellite imagery. Verified using the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) for the Shakhtinskaya Coal Mine Mining Plan Through 2042 (2021), page 40, https://www.archive.org/details/eia_shakhtinskaya-coal-mine.

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
2025-05-03T06:41:25+00	CarbonMapper, tan20250503t064125c00s4001-F	49.78682, 72.61536	491.1805 kg/hr	Qaraghandy Region Methane Observation 2025-05-03, 2
2025-05-03T06:41:25+00	CarbonMapper, tan20250503t064125c00s4001-C	49.76146, 72.62624	368.5215 kg/hr	Qaraghandy Region Methane Observation 2025-05-03, 3
2025-05-03T06:41:25+00	CarbonMapper, tan20250503t064125c00s4001-A	49.73889, 72.62191	1175.708 kg/hr	Qaraghandy Region Methane Observation 2025-05-03, 4

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