17 July 2012, Novosibirsk. Siberian Anthracite, one of the world’s largest producers of ultra high grade (UHG) anthracite, announces that since the start of 2012 it has mined 2 million tons of anthracite, an increase of 36% on the previous year. “This increase in mining volumes is the planned result of our ten-year investment programme to drive the company’s development,” said Sergei Korolev, Siberian Anthracite’s director of corporate development.

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About Siberian Anthracite

Siberian Anthracite is one of the world’s largest producers of ultra high grade (UHG) anthracite. The company carries out open-pit mining at deposits in the Gorlovsky coal basin in the Novosibirsk region of western Siberia. In late 2006 Siberian Anthracite launched a 10-year investment programme to create a world-leading UHG anthracite mining and processing facility. To date, the company has upgraded and constructed extraction, processing and transport infrastructure, and substantially overhauled and expanded its fleet of mining equipment and machinery. Run-of-mine anthracite volumes have almost tripled since 2009, reaching 3.4 million tonnes in 2011. www.sibanthracite.ru