Pokrovske mine completed equipment fitting in the 13th southern longwall

Pokrovske Mine Administration, Ukraine’s largest producer of coking coal, has completed the installation of equipment for the 13th southern longwall of the block №10, corporate Metinvest Media reported.

“Combine, powered support, scraper, underwall and two belt conveyors are almost ready for work. A team of installers from Metinvest Pokrovskugol carried out installation of the equipment of the 13th southern longwall of block №10,” the report says.

Thus, in the near future, employees from site №7 will be mining on the longwall. The next site of the mine for the modernization is a stope.

Earlier GMK Center reported that the Pokrovske Mine Administration planned to put the stope of the 13th southern longwall of block №10 into operation in the first half of July 2022.

According to the results of 2021, Pokrovske mine increased its production of coking coal by 1.5% compared to 2020, to 6.22 million tons. Now, Metinvest Pokrovskcoal is loaded by 75% of its 2021 level.

Metinvest Pokrovskcoal includes several enterprises of the Pokrovske Coal Group, including the Pokrovske Mine Administration and the Svyato-Varvarynska Concentrator. These enterprises carry out the extraction of run-of-mine coal, its enrichment and sale as coal concentrate.

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