Shubarkol Premium Coal Mine

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Shubarkol Premium Coal Mine (Шубарколь Премиум) is an operating coal mine in Shubarkol, Nura district, Karaganda, Kazakhstan.

Location

Table 1: Project-level location details

Mine Name	Location	Coordinates (WGS 84)
Shubarkol Premium Coal Mine	Shubarkol, Nura district, Karaganda, Kazakhstan	49.017346, 68.614549 (approximate)

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Project Details

Table 2: Project status

Status	Status Detail	Opening Year	Closing Year
Operating	–	2016	–

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
–	3	2022	Surface	Open Pit	–	50*	861*

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
399	–	2147	–	Subbituminous	Thermal	–

Table 5: Ownership and parent company

Owner	Parent Company	Headquarters
Shubarkol Premium JSC	Shubarkol Premium JSC	Kazakhstan

Expansion/Extension

Table 6: Project status

* Added capacity of a coal mine refers to the enhancement in the mine's production capabilities beyond its initial production capacity.

Status	Status Detail	Project Type	Project Phase	Added Capacity (Mtpa)*	Start Year
Proposed	–	Expansion	–	1.2	2023

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

Background

Shurbarkol Premium Coal Mine (разрез Шубарколь Премиум) is a SURFACE mine in Karaganda region, Kazakhstan. 

It is not to be confused with Shubarkol Centralny coal mine and Shubarkol Zapadny Coal Mine. Shubarkol Premium JSC owns and operates the mine. The company is listed on the Kazakhstan Stock Exchange.

It is owned by Joint Resources JSC (67%), TRANS COAL INVESTMENT GROUP LLP (16.5%) and FCI MANAGEMENT LLP (16.5%). Mr T. Kulibaev is the sole shareholder of Joint Resources JSC.

Shubarkol Premium JSC was registered in April 2017. Initially, the development of the coal mine was carried out by JV Arbat LLP, established in 2013 to implement the project to develop the Centralny-2 site of Shubarkol coal deposit in the Karaganda region. In 2013 the company signed a contract with the Ministry of Energy of Kazakhstan for coal extraction for 25 years, the contract is renewable. In 2016, Arbat JV was renamed to Shubarkol Premium.

The mine produces Grade D coal (sub-bituminous), with further processing and production of semi-coke, coal-tar, semi-coking gas, synthetic liquid fuel. Coal is supplied to the domestic market as well as exported.

Coal production almost doubled in 2022 and according to the company's annual report, in 2023 it planned to increase production to 4.2 Mt. However as of September 2023, the coal mine's production only reached over 1 million tonnes, a 50% decrease compared to 2022, due to limitations on the supply of railway cars by the national company Kazakhstan Temir Zholy. Most of the coal in January-August 2023 was exported to Poland (8x increase compared with 2022 export levels), the rest was shipped to Latvia, Estonia and Uzbekistan. In contrast in the same period in 2022, significant volumes were shipped to Tukey, Cyprus and Switzerland. 2023 production plan has been revised to 2 million tonnes.

• Owner: Shubarkol Premium JSC
• Parent: Joint Resources JSC [67.0%]; TOO FCI Management [16.5%]; TOO Trans Coal Investment Group [16.5%]
• Location: Nura district, Karaganda region, Kazakhstan
• Coordinates: 49.017346, 68.614549 (Approximate)
• Status: Operating
• Production: 1.14 million tonnes (2020), 1.68 million tonnes (2021), 3 million tonnes (2022)
• Total Resource: 2147 million tonnes
• Total Reserves: 399 million tonnes (2021)
• Coal Type: SUBBITUMINOUS (Thermal)
• Mine Type: SURFACE
• Start Year: 2016
• Source of Financing:

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