Novovolynskaya No 9 Coal Miine

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Novovolynskaya No 9 Coal Miine (Шахта Нововолынская № 9) is an operating coal mine in Novovolynsk, Volyn, Ukraine.

Location

Table 1: Project-level location details

Mine Name	Location	Coordinates (WGS 84)
Novovolynskaya No 9 Coal Miine	Novovolynsk, Volyn, Ukraine	50.6664659774286, 24.1783489968726 (exact)

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Project Details

Table 2: Project status

Status	Status Detail	Opening Year	Closing Year
Operating	–	1964	2024

Table 3: Operation details

Note: The asterisk (*) signifies that the value is a GEM estimated figure.

Capacity (Mtpa)	Production (Mtpa)	Year of Production	Mine Type	Mining Method	Mine Size (km2)	Mine Depth (m)	Workforce Size
–	0.01	2021	Underground	–	–	730*	#REF!*

Table 4: Coal resources and destination

Total Reserves (Mt)	Year of Total Reserves Recorded	Total Resources (Mt)	Coalfield	Coal Type	Coal Grade	Primary Consumer/ Destination
0.03	2022	–	–	Bituminous	Thermal	–

Table 5: Ownership and parent company

Owner	Parent Company	Headquarters
Volynvygglia State Enterprise	Ministry of Energy of Ukraine	Ukraine

Table 6: Historical production (unit: million tonnes per annum)

ROM or Saleable	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023
ROM	0.05	–	–	0	0.01	–	–

Note: The above section was automatically generated and is based on data from the Global Coal Mine Tracker April 2024 release and the September and December supplements.

Background

Novovolynskaya No 9 Coal Mine is an underground coal mine in Volyn Oblast, Ukraine.The mine's initial capacity was 0.45 million tonnes.

In 2015, the Ministry of Energy decided to close the mine. However the mine continued working in 2017 and also reopened in 2018 after a temporary suspension of operations.

As per media source dated November 2021, the mine was still working, with plans to mine for another 1.5-2 years. Concrete measures to close the mine were only taken in 2021, according to the same source.In June 2021, the mine was without electricity due to unpaid bills and partial flooding of the mine commenced.

An incident occurred at the mine in April 2021 where an elevator with people broke off, nine miners were hospitalized with injuries of varying severity.

As of July 2022 and September 2022, the mine appeared to be still operating, based on several video reports.

In February 2023, liquidation of the mine was postponed by a year as the mine still had coal reserves of more than 30 thousand tonnes. However the mine was being prepared for liquidation and a project "Fair transformation of the mine" was developed. 404 people worked at the mine, down from 600 in 2021.

A special permit for the subsoil use of the mine's reserves for 20 years was put up for an on-line auction in November 2023.

• Owner: Volynvygglia State Enterprise
• Parent: Ministry of Energy of Ukraine
• Location: Novovolynsk, Volyn Oblast, Ukraine
• Coordinates: 50.666466, 24.178349 (Exact)
• Mine status: Operating
• Start year: 1963
• Production capacity (Mtpa): 0.05 Mt (2017), 0 (2020), 0.01 Mt (2021)
• Total reserves (Mt): 0.03 Mt (2022)
• Coal type: Bituminous
• Mine type: Underground
• Mine size (Km2):
• Workforce size:
• Primary consumer:
• Source of financing:

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