BELON TO BOOST OUTPUT 50 percent AFTER COMMISSIONING TWO KUZBASS COAL MINES

摘要

The Belon coal and metals group will boost coal production in the Kuznetsk basin (Kuzbass, Kemerovo region) 50 percent this year after commissioning two new mines. Aman Tuleyev, the region's governor, said at the signing of a socioeconomic cooperation deal between the region and the company that Belon would commission the Kostromovskaya deep mine and Novobachat-sky 2 strip mine in 2008. "We mined 4.7 million tonnes of coal in the Kuz-bass in 2007 and we expect production to rise 50 percent in 2008," Andrei Dobrov, Belon's CEO, told reporters on February 12.