Velikomostovskaya Coal Mine

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Velikomostovskaya Coal Mine is an underground coal mine in Lviv Oblast, Ukraine.

Location

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Background

The mine is located in the Lviv-Volyn coal basin. The mine was commissioned in 1958 with design capacity of 450 thousand tonnes of coal per annum. It is the oldest in the region.

In 2009 the mine produced 382 thousand tonnes of coal.

In 2022, the Ministry of Energy decided to liquidate the mine. According to the explanatory note, the mine was at that time developing only one coal seam, the reserves of which will be enough for 2-2.5 years of operation.

The mine is part of the project to transform the Chervonograd coal microregion within the framework of the Program "Supporting Structural Changes in the Coal Regions of Ukraine", which is being implemented by the German Society for International Cooperation (GIZ) on behalf of the Federal Ministry of Economy and Climate Protection of Germany. The Velikomostovskaya coal mine is the pilot project and in 2022, GIZ promised to provide UAH 5 million for the closure of the mine.

There are six state-owned mines in the Chervonohrad microregion and one private Nadiya mine in Sosnivka. But over the past few years, the volume of coal mined by them has significantly decreased.

Sources from late 2023 stated that the mine has stopped producing in November 2022 due to the depletion of reserves.

Mine Details

• Owner: Lvivgughiliya State Enterprise
• Parent: Lvivgughiliya State Enterprise
• Location: Lviv Oblast, Ukraine
• Coordinates: 50.35241465003442, 24.222576249035672 (Exact)
• Mine status: Closed
• Start year: 1958
• Production capacity (Mtpa): 0.45 Mtpa (capacity)
• Total reserves (Mt):
• Coal type: Bituminous
• Mine type: Underground