We are in Kiselevsk – a little mining town near Novokuznetsk, at Mine â„–12 – one of the oldest enterprises of the Kuznetsk Basin that has been working since 1917. Here, you’ll see opencast mines and a coal cleaning plant of the enterprise.
Coal cleaning plant
Open pit coal mine
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Ways of coal mining depend on the depth of its occurrence. It’s extracted in an open way if it’s not deeper than 100 m. The deepest coal mines on the territory of Russia extract coal from depth a bit more than 1200m in an underground way.
This coal mine has a max. depth of 350 m
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Coal has its marking. Depending on a degree of its conversion and a specific quantity of carbon in coal there are 4 types of coal: brown coal (lignite), black coal, anthracite and black lead.
