OREANDA-NEWS. On June 20, 2007, the team of Ye.A. Dorokhin working at the Listvyazhnaya mine of the Belon Group raised its millionth ton of coal from face No. 1108, reported the press-centre of  Belon Group.

It is the first time in the history of the enterprise that the production level of one million tons of coal has been reached in such a short time-mining at face No. 1108 started in January this year.

Such record-breaking results were made possible by high professional qualification of the Company’s team and faultless operation of the machinery conforming to the best world standards. Face No. 1108 is fitted with high-performance equipment: coal excavation equipment produced by the Joy Mining Machinery Company, Great Britain, and multisection jacks manufactured by the largest Chinese producer of mining equipment.

The team of Ye.A. Dorokhin is not a first-time leader: in 2005, they broke the record of monthly production twice. In January this year, the team set a new record again - this time for daily coal production - by raising 10,750 tons of coal from face No. 1108. In total, the team of Ye.A. Dorokhin undertakes to come to the end of the year with a production rate of 1 mln. 780 thous. tons of coal.

On the whole, the total output of the Listvyazhnaya mine projected for 2007 is 2 mln. 700 thous. tons of coal. The enterprise modernization to follow will allow producing over 3 mln. tons of coal before the end of 2008, and to further increase this index up to 4,5 mln. tons of coal a year by 2010. All the steam coal produced at the mine will be cleaned at the Listvyazhnaya coal preparation plant (under construction) to be commissioned in the third quarter of the current year.