22 August 2012, Moscow. Staff from Siberian Anthracite, one of the world’s largest producers of ultra high grade (UHG) anthracite, participated in a meeting with President of Russia Vladimir Putin on the eve of the Miners’ Day, the Russian national day honoring the mining industry.

Vladimir Putin met more than 500 representatives of the mining industry, researchers and industry veterans on the eve of the 65th celebration of Miners’ Day. The President wished the audience a happy Miners’ Day, and spoke of miners as truly hard-working, strong and brave people.

Siberian Anthracite was represented by five honored workers: Boris Voloboev, holder of the Miner of Russia Golden Badge and Executive Director of Siberian Anthracite; Michael Litovchenko, holder of the Miner’s Glory award third, second and first class, senior controller; Ivan Pchelintsev, holder of the Miner’s Glory award third, second and first class, assistant excavator operator; Sergey Tyupaylov, holder of the Miner’s Glory award third, second and first class, excavator operator; Alexey Gorte, director of the Listvyanskaya-2 Washing Plant.

Miner’s Day was officially established in the Soviet Union in 1947. It is usually celebrated on the last Sunday of August.

Media contacts

Maria Grigoreva Head of Public Relations +7 495 956 35 33 MGrigoreva@sibanthracite.ru

Tom Blackwell M:Communications +7 495 363 2841 Blackwell@mcomgroup.com

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