Tikhova Coal Mine

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Tikhova Coal Mine (Шахта им. С.Д. Тихова) is an operating coal mine in Konevo, Leninsk-Kuznetsky, Kemerovo, Russia.

Location

Table 1: Project-level location details

Mine Name	Location	Coordinates (WGS 84)
Tikhova Coal Mine	Konevo, Leninsk-Kuznetsky, Kemerovo, Russia	54.53179, 86.167471 (exact)

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Project Details

Table 2: Project status

Status	Status Detail	Opening Year	Closing Year
Operating	–	2017	–

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	1.37	2023	Underground	Longwall	–	448.0*	841*

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
–	–	–	–	Bituminous	Met	–

Table 5: Ownership and parent company

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Owner	Parent Company	Headquarters
Shakhta Tikhova LLC [100%]	Magnitogorskiy Metallurgicheskiy Kombinat PJSC [100.0%]	Russia

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
Saleable	–	–	–	1.1	1.2*	1.25	1.37

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	Pre-Permit	Expansion	–	1.2	2027 (planned)

Note: The above section was automatically generated and is based on data from the Global Coal Mine Tracker May 2025 release.

Background

Tikhova coal mine (Шахта им. С.Д. Тихова) is an underground mine in Kemerovo Oblast, Russia. The Tikhova mine is an underground mine owned and operated by Shakhta Tikhova LLC, whose ultimate parent was KOKS PJSC. KOKS Group also includes the Management Company Industrial Metallurgical Holding (IMH), which was often referred to as the owner of Shakhta Tikhova LLC. In July 2023 the mine was sold to MMK-Ugol, a subsidiary of Magnitogorsk Metallurgichesky Kombinat. MMK said that the Tikhova mine is located "in close proximity" to the Kostromovskaya coal mine, the current mine of MMK. "These mines develop neighbouring sections of the Nikitinsky coal deposit in Kuzbass, which has high reserves of coking coal grade Zh. The acquisition of the Tikhova mine allows for direct synergies between the assets, most effectively optimising operating costs and mining plans within the combined complex," the press release of MMK said.

In late 2022, Shakhta Tikhova LLC acquired some of the assets of the assets of the bankrupting Butovskaya coal mine, which was also part of KOKS group.

The mine began operating in summer 2017. The mine's capacity is 1.8 million tonnes and the company planned to increase capacity by 1 million tonnes. The expansion was also mentioned as Phase 2 of the project in Russia's 'Programme for Coal Industry Development up to 2035' released in June 2020.

As of September 2022, IMH-Coal's website stated that construction of the surface buildings and the infrastructure of the mine was underway. Fitch Ratings revised the estimate of commissioning of Phase 2 of the mine from 2024 to 2025 (in May 2021).

In September 2022, the governor of Kuzbass said that new mine projects are on hold due to infrastructure restrictions of coal exports through the Eastern route of Russian Railways, only the projects that are nearing completion are being finished. However as per February 2024 reporting, the project to expand the mine's capacity to 2.8 million tonnes was still mentioned.

Incidents

In January 2021, there was a release of methane in the mine with a subsequent collapse. 41 miners were evacuated, but 3 miners died. Just a few weeks later another fatality occurred when an electrical worker died. Previously there was another fatality in 2019 when one mine worker died following methane release.In March 2022, the mine's operations were suspended for 6 days due to hazardous conditions.

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