TASHKENT, Uzbekistan, December 26. Uzbekistan has extracted 5.73 million tons of coal from January through November 2023, Trend reports.
As per Uzbekistan’s State Statistics Committee, the recorded number reflects a 19,1-percent, or 1 million tons, increase compared to the same period last year, when Uzbekistan extracted 4.63 million tons of coal.
In November 2023 alone, large enterprises in Uzbekistan extracted 614,300 tons of coal.
Earlier this year it was revealed that Uzbekistan plans to start operating a new coal mine with 900,000 tons of reserves at the Shargun deposit in its Surkhandarya region.
The region's extraction operations total 541,000 tons as of today. Uzbekistan intends to enhance coal extraction in the region by 2 million tons in reaction to this discovery.
Moreover, the country plans to increase the overall coal production to 6.5 million tons by the end of 2023, which is 22.6 percent more than the volume extracted in 2022.