Steppe (Pershotravensk) Coal Mine

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Steppe (Pershotravensk) Coal Mine (Шахта Степная (Першотравенск)) is an operating coal mine in Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine.

Location

Table 1: Project-level location details

Mine Name	Location	Coordinates (WGS 84)
Steppe (Pershotravensk) Coal Mine	Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine	48.3759187896637, 36.3750739496039 (exact)

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Project Details

Table 2: Project status

Status	Status Detail	Opening Year	Closing Year
Operating	–	1965	–

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
–	2	2015	Underground	–	–	730*	1759*

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
–	–	–	–	Bituminous	–	–

Table 5: Ownership and parent company

Owner	Parent Company	Headquarters
DTEK Pavlogradugol PJSC	DTEK Energy BV [100.0%]	Ukraine

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

ROM or Saleable	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023
ROM	–	–	–	–	–	–	–

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

Steppe (Pershotravensk) Coal Mine is a coal mine in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, Ukraine.

It is also referred to as Stepnaya or Stepova coal mine. The Steppe or Stepnaya or Stepova coal mine is an underground coal mine. It is operated by DTEK Pavlogradugol, a subsidiary of DTEK Group, which is ultimately owned by Ukrainian billionaire Rinat Akhmetov.

In 2020 and 2021, the coal mines of DTEK Pavlodgradugol jointly produced 16 million tonnes of coal.

As of 2021, DTEK planned to close the mine in 2024.

Pavlograd is considered the center of Western Donbass and coal mines are located around the city. Located 80km from the Donetsk region, the city periodically suffers from Russian shelling. Due to the Russian invasion, many people left Pavlograd, including mine workers, and about 3,600 miners were mobilized into the Defense Forces. Coal enterprises faced a personnel crisis and now many women are employed in the mines in Pavlograd.

In 2020, DTEK implemented a mine methane cogeneration pilot project, whereby methane gas is converted into electricity and heat. In 2021, the co-generation equipment produced 6 million kWh of electricity from methane in the first year of operations of the new installation, which was 1/10th of the total mine energy consumption.

As of August 2023, the mine appeared to be operational although no production levels are known. The latest production figure is from 2015 at 2 Mt.

• Owner: DTEK Pavlogradugol
• Parent Company: DTEK Energy
• Location: Mykolaivka, Petropavlivka Raion, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, Ukraine
• GPS Coordinates: 48.37596, 36.37522 (Exact)
• Status: Operating
• Production Capacity: 1.3 Mt (capacity), 2 Mt (2015)
• Total Reserves:
• Recoverable Reserves:
• Coal type: Bituminous
• Mine Type: Underground
• Start Year: 1965

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