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Uzbekistan to implement major coal-mining project

Oil&Gas Materials 31 January 2020 16:17 (UTC +04:00)
Uzbekistan to implement major coal-mining project

BAKU, Azerbaijan, Jan. 31

By Ilkin Seyfaddini – Trend:

Boysun site of the Baysun coal field was transformed into a Boysunkumir LLC subsidiary economic entity, Trend reports citing Uzbek media.

As reported, this has been done in order to carry out coal mining activities and to implement investment projects in this area.

From 1990 through 1995, Uzbekistan’s State Geology and Mineral Resources Committee (Goskomgeologiya) developed the working project on extraction to 50,000 tons of coal a year based on the prepared and approved report on exploration results. However, after the passage of tunnel No. 1 with the length of 511 meters, the layers of hard coal were not reached as a result of underground geological destruction. Therefore, additional geological prospecting and survey works have been done, for clarification of an arrangement and a direction of a layer of coal of Baysun's Southern deposit. According to the results, after passing tunnel No.1, a layer of hard coal with depth to 2.5 meters was registered.

According to the specialists of Shargunkumir JSC (organization of coal mining within Uzbekistan Railways JSC), implementation of the project on production of 50,000 tons of coal at Southern section of Baysun coal field will be carried out till the end of 2020. The company owns a license for the development of the Baysun and Shargun coal fields.

Implementation of the project on construction of Boysun deposit at the Central and Eastern sites of Baysun coal field project is provided for attraction of direct foreign investments and bringing coal production up to 450,000 tons per year.

At the same time, the issue of export of high-quality coal products extracted by Shargunkumir at Shargun and Baysun coal fields is under consideration. In the future, the company's goal is to discover new coal deposits in Surkhandarya region and further increase the rate of production of high-quality coal with the use of mechanized mining technologies.

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