With demand dropping for coal, Ukraine’s coal mining industry is a shadow of its

Tuesday, December 15, 2020
With demand dropping for coal, Ukraine’s coal mining industry is a shadow of its

With demand dropping for coal, Ukraine’s coal mining industry is a shadow of its peak when it employed 500,000 miners, making Ukraine Europe’s third largest coal producer, after Germany and Poland. Last year, Ukraine’s production was 31 million tons – 17% the level of 1989. This year, it could fall to 25 million tons – the level of 1914.

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