The Yuvileina mine has commissioned a new unit with a capacity of 141,000 tonnes of ore

In early July, the Yuvileina Mine at the Sukha Balka mining complex commissioned a new section located at the 1,420-metre level of the ‘Golovnyi’ seam. The proven reserves amount to 141,000 tonnes of ore with an iron content of over 59 per cent. This is reported in the company’s corporate newspaper.

The preparation and handover of the new section for mining were carried out by the team from Section No. 4. The miners carried out the preparatory work using conventional methods, employing a scraper winch.

“A key technical feature of the block is the presence of a drift platform, which allows us to optimise the process and load batches of raw material directly into the scraper within the working face,” said Vasyl Lubinets, Deputy Chief Production Engineer at the Yuvileina Mine.

The next stage of the production cycle – the actual extraction of ore from the prepared site – will be carried out by miners from Section No. 18. The raw material is scheduled to be extracted over the next four months.

Since the start of 2026, seven new blocks with a total raw material reserve of 561,000 tonnes have been brought into operation at the Yuvileina mine.

As reported by GMK Center, the companies of the DCH Steel group – the Sukha Balka mine and the Dniprovskyi Metallurgical Plant (DMZ) – paid 304.5 million UAH in taxes and duties to budgets at all levels in the first half of 2026. The total amount of tax payments made by the Sukha Balka mine between January and May was 208.8 million hryvnias.