Uskovskaya Coal Mine

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Uskovskaya Coal Mine (Усковская шахта) is an operating coal mine in Uskovo, Novokuznetsky, Kemerovo, Russia.

Location

Table 1: Project-level location details

Mine Name	Location	Coordinates (WGS 84)
Uskovskaya Coal Mine	Uskovo, Novokuznetsky, Kemerovo, Russia	54.12389, 87.295827 (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	–	1999	–

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
2.28	2	2025	Underground	Longwall	–	448*	900

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
180	2022	328	–	Bituminous	Met	Steel Plant

Table 5: Ownership and parent company

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Owner	Parent Company	Headquarters
Shakhta Uskovskaya LLC [100.0%]	Raspadskaya PJSC	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	2024	2025
Saleable	2.4*	2	3	2.46	2.84	2.54	1.5*	*	2

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

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Background

The Uskovskaya coal mine (Усковская шахта) is an underground coal mine in Kemerovo Oblast, Russia.

It is part of the Yuzhkuzbassugol coal mining complex. Raspadskaya PJSC, a subsidiary of Evraz, operates the mine and the whole Yuzhkuzbassugol coal mining complex.

Evraz announced in December 2021 that it was planning to spin off Raspadskaya, but these plans were cancelled in March 2022 due to the sanctions against Russia.

The Uskovskaya coal mine was initially called Ulyanovskaya mine. Following a tragic accident in 2007 when 110 miners died, the coal mine was mothballed. In 2009 the mine was joined together with the mine Yubileynaya. In 2012, it was renamed as Uskovskaya.

The designed capacity of the mine is 3 Mtpa. In 2021, the mine commissioned a new longwall with 25 years of reserves. Additional infrastructure was built to transfer coal mining to a new seam and new treatment and tunnelling equipment was installed. This all made it possible to extend the life of the mine until at least 2035. Another new longwall was planned to be opened in June 2023.

One fatality at the mine was reported in 2022.

In November 2024, it was reported that the mine has met the business plan ahead of time, having extracted 2 million tonnes by the end of November.

In April 2025, extraction from longwall 48-10 was completed, and in June longwall 48-12 was commissioned with reserves of 2.25 million tonnes, expected to be fully extracted by May 2026. The mine's total balance reserves stand at 328 million tonnes.

In December 2025, the mine again met its annual production plan ahead of schedule, extracting 2 million tonnes of coking 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
M0864.B1	mine boundary	underground	Uskovskaya mine boundary	reported	2025-12-01 00:00:00
M0864.P1	degasification system	drainage station	Gas drainage station	extracted	2025-04-24 00:00:00
M0864.P2	other	slope access or production shaft	Mine production shaft	extracted	2025-04-24 00:00:00
M0864.P3	other	slope access or production shaft	Mine production shaft	extracted	2025-04-24 00:00:00
M0864.P4	ventilation system	shaft	Possible ventilation shaft	extracted	2025-04-24 00:00:00
M0864.P5	ventilation system	vent	Possible ventilation system	extracted	2025-04-24 00:00:00
M0864.P6	ventilation system	vent	Possible ventilation system	extracted	2025-04-24 00:00:00
M0864.P7	ventilation system	shaft	Possible ventilation shaft	extracted	2025-04-24 00:00:00
M0864.P8	ventilation system	shaft	Possible ventilation shaft	extracted	2025-04-24 00:00:00
M0864.P9	ventilation system	shaft	Ventilation system	extracted	2025-04-24 00:00:00
M0864.P10	ventilation system	vent	Possible ventilation system	extracted	2025-04-24 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 Dec 05, 2025

ID	Notes
M0864.B1	This mine operates under subsoil land-use license КЕМ15338ТЭ, as identified through the environmental impact assessment documentation, specifically the “Notification of Public Discussions” (Уведомление об обсуждениях), page 2, https://web.archive.org/details/uvedomlenie_uskovskaya_291025, Nov 12 2025.The license was issued on March 20, 2012, and is valid until December 31, 2023, https://web.archive.org/web/20251201195718/https://www.list-org.com/company/6803667 The boundary for license СЫК02559ТЭ was extracted from the NedraExpert portal at https://web.archive.org/web/20251201200853/https://www.nedraexpert.ru/subsurface/1144748003/1.The approximate area of the resulting boundary is 20 square km.
M0864.P1	Identified visually from Google Earth Pro satellite imagery.
M0864.P2	Identified visually from Google Earth Pro satellite imagery.
M0864.P3	Identified visually from Google Earth Pro satellite imagery.
M0864.P4	Identified visually from Google Earth Pro satellite imagery.
M0864.P5	Identified visually from Google Earth Pro satellite imagery.
M0864.P6	Identified visually from Google Earth Pro satellite imagery.
M0864.P7	Identified visually from Google Earth Pro satellite imagery.
M0864.P8	Identified visually from Google Earth Pro satellite imagery.
M0864.P9	Identified visually from Google Earth Pro satellite imagery.
M0864.P10	Identified visually from Google Earth Pro satellite imagery.

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
2025-07-04T05:55:53+00	CarbonMapper, tan20250704t055553c55s4001-G	54.12778, 87.3022	307.8559 kg/hr	Kemerovskaja Administrative Region Methane Observation 2025-07-04, 3
2025-07-04T05:55:53+00	CarbonMapper, tan20250704t055553c55s4001-J	54.12469, 87.29086	589.788 kg/hr	Kemerovskaja Administrative Region Methane Observation 2025-07-04, 4

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