Russia's Federal State Statistics Service - Rosstat - said Russian coal production fell 20.8% to 22.1 million tonnes in February 2009 compared to February 2008.
Bituminous coal production fell 17.4% to 16.1 million tonnes in February, with open cast mines producing 8.9 million tonnes of this, down 19.7%, and deep mines producing 7.2 million tonnes, down 14.5%. Lignite coal production fell 28.6% to 6 million tonnes. Coking coal production fell 29.9% to 3.8 million tonnes.
Coal production also fell compared to the previous month - by 6.5% with open cast mines reducing output by 1% and deep mines by 7.6%.
Lignite coal production fell 12.5% in February compared to January, while coking coal output declined 15.9%.
Coal production fell 19.3% over the first two months of the year compared to the same period of 2008. Bituminous coal production fell 16.6% with open mine output declining 20.5% and deep mine production falling 11.4%. Lignite coal production fell 5.6% in the two months and coking coal output plunged 37.8%.
Soource: Interfax
No comments:
Post a Comment