Kuzbassrazrezugol starts to construct dressing plant with capacity of 3 million tons of coal per year

A new dressing plant to handle 3 million tons of coal per year will be constructed at the Kaltansky opencast coal mine, UGMK reports.

The new dressing plant Kaltanskaya-Energeticheskaya will be the 6th dressing plant of the company. In accordance with the program of dressing capacities development, 9 dressing plants will operate at Kuzbassrazrezugol by 2018.

“The dressing plant Kaltanskaya-Energeticheskaya is the first stage of the large-sale program of dressing capacities increase in 2014-2017. Three more new dressing plants are planned to be launched in this period – at the Taldinsky, Krasnobrodsky and Bachatsky opencast coal mines, one per year. As a result, Kuzbassrazrezugol will process and dress all available coal that is 90% of the total production volume,” – UGMK reports.