Ukrainian immigrant Nick Gurski began working in the Boone County coal mines in the 1920s. Eventually, his sons and grandsons also worked in the mines. Meanwhile, his wife Mary operated the Nellis boarding house for foreign-born miners. Coal mining is a dangerous job requiring skill and judgment.
Most coal plants were over 40 years old, and several plants were facing a half-century of wear and tear and were operating at a limited capacity. Coal supplies from the Donbass region in Eastern Ukraine stopped almost entirely in mid-2014 and 2015 due to destroyed coal mines and transportation infrastructure following Russia's seizure of Crimea.
Coal miner: 'People are expendable' Kyiv Post. 5 August 2011. Editor's Note: The following is a partial transcript of an interview given by Ihor Vladimirovich Smetanin, a wagon driver at Rinat Akhmetov's Sukhodilska-Skhidna coal mine, where at least 27 miners were killed in a methane explosion.Smetanin blames the greed of mine owners and managers for …
The eleventh longwall is scheduled to be commissioned in 2025. Despite challenging mining and geological conditions, Pokrovske Coal notes in a statement that longwall Number 11 is one of the most ...
The rare find was made in the Ukrainian town of Donetsk, down a coal mine. As it could not be safely or successfully cut out due to the nature of the sandstone in which it was embedded, the mysterious artifact looking much like an ancient wheel remains in situ down the mine. ... following the instructions of the then owner of the mine ...
The rare find was made in the Ukrainian town of Donetsk, down a coal mine. As it could not be safely or successfully cut out due to the nature of the sandstone in which it was embedded, the mysterious artefact looking much like an ancient wheel remains in situ down the mine. ... following the instructions of the then owner of the mine ...
DTEK is the mine's owner and Ukraine's largest private energy company. It says nearly 3,000 of its 20,000 mineworkers are fighting. Of the thousand miners at this mine and its nearby other ...
A Bloomberg News/NPR investigation found large U.S. coal companies used bankruptcy and asset transfers to move old mines to shaky new owners, putting at risk federally mandated land reclamation.
Illegal coal-mining in Ukraine is threatening the country's economic independence, Gulliver Cragg reports from the Donbass region. ... ("Our money"), owners of illegal mines can even benefit from ...
Deep underground in Ukraine, miners work around the clock extracting coal to power the country's war effort and to provide civilians with light and heat.
"Coal price caps were implemented to address the domestic impact of high global thermal coal prices resulting from the war in Ukraine," a ... urged the Australian Government to ensure that closures of coal-fired power plants are carefully coordinated with the owners of the power plants, the Australian Electricity Market Operator, and the ...
With the war in Ukraine and resulting calls to boycott Russian gas, Mr. Manchin has joined Republicans to press for more American gas and oil production to fill the gap on the world market ...
Billionaire Rinat Akhmetov is the new owner of United Coal Co. More than 300 coal miners in Letcher and Knott counties are going to work for the richest man in Europe. Metinvest Group, a mining and steel-making company based in the country of Ukraine, announced that it is acquiring 100 percent of United Coal Company
Workers move quickly to put out a fire around the St. Matrona mine after a Russian artillery attack in Toretsk, Ukraine, on June 16, 2022. The Donbas is a …
DTEK, the mine's owner and Ukraine's largest private energy company, says nearly 3,000 of its 20,000 mineworkers are fighting. Of the thousand miners at this mine and its nearby twin ...
Take, for example, Metinvest Pokrovsk Coal, one of Ukraine's newest coal mines. Before the war, Metinvest employed around 8,000 people; now, this number has decreased to about 6,000.
With the increased production output of coal at state-owned mines, coal stocks in the warehouses of energy companies are also rising. In late March 2024, thermal power plants and combined heat and power plants accumulated about 1.208 million tonnes of coal in warehouses, which is 508 thousand tonnes higher compared to the target plan.
The Yuvileyna Coal Mine ("Jubilee" in Ukrainian) is an underground coal mine in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, Ukraine. The Yuvileyna coal mine is an underground coal mine. It is operated by DTEK Pavlogradugol, a subsidiary of DTEK Group, which is owned by Ukrainian billionaire Rinat Akhmetov. In 2020, the coal mines of DTEK Pavlodgradugol …
Ukraine was once Europe's third-largest coal producer. But production has dropped dramatically since 2014, when fighting broke out with pro-Russian separatists in the eastern Donbas region.
DONETSK, Ukraine (AP) — Glistening black sweat rolls down the spine of a beefy miner as he jackhammers bedrock along the shaft at the Chelyuskintsev coal …
DTEK, the mine's owner and Ukraine's largest private energy company, says nearly 3,000 of its 20,000 mineworkers are fighting. Of the thousand miners at this mine and its nearby twin ...
April 8, 2023 10:06 AM PT. DNIPROPETROVSK OBLAST, Ukraine —. Deep underground in southeastern Ukraine, miners work around the clock extracting coal to power the …
The Luhanske coal mine is an underground coal mine. It is operated by Luhansk Coal (Luhanskvugglia), a state-owned company that since 2014 has been folded into Tsentrugol, the "State Unitary Enterprise" of the Luhansk People's Republic rebel government. According to a Ukrainian source from 2020, the mine was planned for …
Homepage Israel Ukraine Kamala Harris Trump Putin Apalachee High School ... Relative co-owners of the coal mining company expressed dissatisfaction with the results of the court proceedings ... resident of Nookat district, Shaymbek Alimbaev, told about the legal proceedings in the Uu-Tash coal mine in Kadamzhai district, Batken region. On ...
Economy of coal phase-out in Ukraine's power sector is workable – study. ... The closure of state-owned coal mines will result in the loss of 36,000 jobs by 2030. …
Note: The above section was automatically generated and is based on data from the GEM April 2024 Global Coal Mine Tracker dataset. Background The Dovzhanska-Kapitalna Coal Mine (also known by its Russian name, Dolzhanskaya-Kapitalnaya) is an underground anthracite coal mine in Luhansk Oblast, Ukraine.. According to the …
Ukraine was once Europe's third-largest coal producer. But production has dropped dramatically since 2014, when fighting broke out with pro-Russian separatists in …
Russia has repeatedly targeted Ukraine's electrical infrastructure since the start of the war and taken control of multiple coal mines, part of a wider campaign, …
Krystyna, 22-years-old, waits for the equipment before going down to work her shift underground, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, at a mine in Dnipropetrovsk region, Ukraine November 17, 2023.
DTEK, the mine's owner and Ukraine's largest private energy company, says nearly 3,000 of its 20,000 mineworkers are fighting. Of the thousand miners at this …
The mine, a vast tower with shafts running more than 600 metres under the surface, juts out against the flat landscape and the grey November weather By Max Hunder PAVLOHRAD: 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. Its answer …
The coal mines, their steep-sided slag heaps dotting the horizon like dark pyramids, have been a defining feature of eastern Ukraine for well over a century.
Miners walk out from the pit-face at the coal mine in Dnipropetrovsk region, Ukraine, on Friday, April 7, 2023. Associated Press/LaPresse (Associated Press/LaPresse) AP. Dnipropetrovsk Oblast - Apr 09, 2023 - 00:00CEST. Deep underground in southeastern Ukraine, miners work around the clock extracting coal to power the country's war effort …
The history of illegal coal mining in the Donbas, a coal region in east Ukraine covering Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts, shows an evolution from small cottage enterprises to the country's largest shadow industry with multi-million turnovers. In the late 1990s, 52 state-owned mines were closed as part of the World Bank assistance …
Hunter Biden and the cobalt mine, explained. By Jael Holzman | 01/21/2022 06:25 AM EST . In 2016, an investment firm co-founded by Hunter Biden helped a Chinese mining conglomerate get control of ...
DTEK, the mine's owner and Ukraine's largest private energy company, says nearly 3,000 of its 20,000 mineworkers are fighting. Of the thousand miners at this mine and its nearby twin enterprise ...