Raspadskaya launches longwall with coal reserves of 3 mln tns

MOSCOW, Oct 8 (PRIME) -- Russian coal producer Raspadskaya, part of steel and mining giant Evraz, has launched production at a new longwall of the Raspadskaya mine with commercial reserves standing at about 3 million tonnes of coking coal, the company said in a statement on Tuesday.

Raspadskaya expects production of the longwall to reach 600,000 tonnes already in 2019, and it plans to deplete the longwall until the end of 2020.

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