Svitanok coal mine
Coal mine located in Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine
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The Svitanok coal mine (Ukrainian: Шахта «Рассвєт») is a large coal mine located in the south-east of Ukraine in Donetsk Oblast. Svitanok represents one of the largest coal reserves in Ukraine, having estimated reserves of 14.3 million tonnes.[1] The annual coal production is around 463,000 tonnes.
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| Location | |
|---|---|
| Products | Coal |
| Production | 463,000 |
| Opened | 1956 |
The mine extracts grade T coal.
History
In September 2007, the Ukrainian Ministry of Coal Industry issued an order to terminate the activities of the state-owned enterprise DVAT Shakhta Rassvet, a subsidiary of the Zhovtenivuhillia holding company, which included the mine, and to reorganise it and merge it into the state enterprise Shakhtarskantratsyt.[2] Two years later, in December 2009, an explosion occurred at the mine, injuring three miners.[3] The incident was attributed to safety violations by a section mine foreman, leading to criminal proceedings, and the case was sent to court in December 2010.[3]
The Ukrainian government later leased the mine to the Sadovaya Group, who were set to develop two longwalls in 2012.[4] By early 2013, however, the group was seeking a buyer for the mine to pay off wage debts of 3.5 million hryvnias, following a fall in coal demand.[5] Although information about the mine ceased after pro-Russian separatists seized and annexed the territory into the pro-Russian, self-declared Donetsk People's Republic, it is known that the mine was at the very least used as an active research site as of 2020 by Donetsk National Technical University.[6]