Kuzbass Increases Coal Output

Miners at the Chernigovets coal pit in the Kemerovo region in southern Siberia have extracted the 200 million metric tons (mt) of coal bringing the Kuzbass district’s annual output up to 8 million mt. According to Voice of Russia, higher extraction volumes were the result of the purchase of modern equipment and introduction of new technologies. Russia is the world’s third largest coal exporter after Australia and Indonesia.