Shargun Coal Mine

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Shargun Coal Mine (Шаргунское месторождение) is an operating coal mine in Saryasiya, Surkhandarya, Uzbekistan.

Location

Table 1: Project-level location details

Mine Name	Location	Coordinates (WGS 84)
Shargun Coal Mine	Saryasiya, Surkhandarya, Uzbekistan	38.463464, 67.975093 (exact)

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Project Details

Table 2: Project status

Status	Status Detail	Opening Year	Closing Year
Operating	–	1958	–

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
–	0.265	2022	Underground	Longwall	–	494*	401*

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
35.6	–	45.7	Shargun	Bituminous	–	Angren power station; Novo-Angren power station

Table 5: Ownership and parent company

Owner	Parent Company	Headquarters
Shargunkumir JSC	Uzbekistan Temir Yullari JSC [99.9%]	Uzbekistan

Expansion/Extension

Table 6: Project status

* Added capacity of a coal mine refers to the enhancement in the mine's production capabilities beyond its initial production capacity.

Status	Status Detail	Project Type	Project Phase	Added Capacity (Mtpa)*	Start Year
Operating	–	Expansion	–	0	2024

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

Background

Shargun coal mine (месторождениe Шаргунь) is an underground mine in Shargun, Saryasiya, Surkhandarya, Uzbekistan.

As of 2023, the mine was scaling up to 900,000 tonnes per annum. The Shargun coal mine is owned and operated by Shargunkumir JSC. 99.86% of the company is owned by O’zbekiston Temir yo’llari JSC (Uzbekistan Railways).

Coal is supplied to Angren power station and Novo-Angren power station.

The mine produced 0.258 million tonnes in 2021 and the business plan was to mine 0.371 million tonnes in 2022, according to the company's 2021 reporting. Actual 2022 production reached 0.265 million tonnes with a plan to produce 0.435 million tonnes in 2023.

The mine is undertaking an expansion to reach capacity of 0.9 million tonnes. In January 2022, it was planned to complete the works by the end of 2022 and to reach capacity of 0.9 million tonnes by 2025. China Railway Tunnel Group Co. LTD and China Coal Technology & Engineering Group Corp are the EPC contractors of the project. In October 2022, the plan to complete the works was still the end of 2022. As of January 2023, works were scheduled to be completed in 2023. The company's business plan published in January 2023 stated that capacity was to increase to 0.9 million tonnes in the second quarter of 2023. In January 2024, Chinese media source reported that the modernization and renovation project has been successfully put into operation.

Reporting from July 2024 indicated that Shargunkumir has fully commissioned underground mechanized complexes, as a result of which daily coal production has reached 3.5 thousand tons.

• Owner: Shargunkumir JSC
• Parent: Uzbekistan Temir Yullari JSC (Uzbekistan Railways JSC)
• Location: Shargun, Saryasiya, Surkhandarya, Uzbekistan
• Coordinates: 38.463464, 67.975093 (exact)
• Status: Operating
• Production: 0.258 million tonnes (2021), 0.265 million tonnes (2022)
• Total Resource: 40 million tonnes (2022)
• Mineable Reserves: 32.6 million tonnes (2022)
• Start date: 1958
• Coal Type: Bituminous
• Mine Type: Underground
• Source of financing:

Project Expansion Details

• Status: Operating (from 2024)
• Production: 0.64 Mt capacity (to reach total capacity of 0.9 Mt)
• Mineable Reserves
• Start date: 2024
• Source of financing: Eximbank China

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