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After more than a thousand of its workers went to fight Russia's invasion, a coal mining enterprise in eastern Ukraine suffered a huge staff shortage. "I took this job because the war started and ...
Russia's invasion has thrown up huge challenges for Ukraine's coal mines, from the danger posed by air strikes to the departure of miners for the front to fight. But pits are still producing coal ...
Although the industry is often associated with the coal-rich Donets basin in the east of the country, other coal mining regions include the Lviv-Volhynian basin and the Dnieper brown coal mining basin. The Donets basin is Ukraine's most developed and largest coal mining region. In 2013, Ukraine was the third largest coal producer in Europe.
Eastern shaft of the Zasyadko coal mine. Local cemetery seen on the foreground is the burial place for most of the victims. Location of Donetsk (red) and Donetsk Oblast (pink) on the map of Ukraine. The 2007 Zasyadko mine disaster was a mining accident that happened on November 18, 2007 at the Zasyadko coal mine (Ukrainian: Шахта ім.
Ukraine's steelmakers' union said this month the potential closure of the Pokrovsk mine, the only domestic source of coking coal essential for steelmaking, could cause steel production to slump to ...
The Zasyadko Mine is one of the most dangerous coal mines in the world due to naturally high levels of gas (particularly methane) and coal dust explosion hazards. [3] [8] Additionally, gradual exhaustion made the mine as large as having 6 shafts and, most importantly, very deep. As of 2004, depths of excavation varied from 529m to 1270m.
Bilorichenska coal mine; Bilozerska coal mine; Bilytska coal mine; Dobropilska coal mine; Faschivska coal mine; Hirske coal mine; Hlyboka coal mine; Kalinin coal mine; Kholodna Balka coal mine; Kirov coal mine; Komsomolets Donbasu coal mine; Krasnoarmiiska–Zakhidna coal mine; Krasnokutska coal mine; Krasnolymanska coal mine; Molodohvardiiska ...
On 4 March 2015, at around 05:20 local time, there was a mining accident at the Zasyadko coal mine in rebel-held Eastern Ukraine. It is suspected to have been caused by a gas explosion. [2] Twenty-three people were confirmed dead. [2] Local rebels claimed a death toll of 30. [2] There were 230 people in the mine at the time of the explosion. [2]