OREANDA-NEWS. OJSC Raspadskaya (RTS, MICEX: RASP) (further Raspadskaya or the Company) announces commissioning of longwall 4-9-25 with commercial coking coal reserves of 2.8 mln tonnes.

The panel of coal in the longwall is 262 meters long and the extraction column is 3,274 meters long. Production in the longwall is now concentrated in production unit 1 (Andrey Sokolov is the head of the unit). Coal is extracted using Bucyrus heading machine coupled with 4LS20 shearer and transferred to the Raspadskaya processing plant using belt conveyours.

"For the first time since 2010, Raspadskaya mine is now operating with four sections at a time. Over the last four years the team has done a great job to recover the mine. Commitment to safety issues is the key to maintain the achieved results," said Sergey Stepanov, General Director of CJSC Raspadskaya Coal Company.

Raspadskaya is a compact integrated coal mining and enrichment complex located in the Kemerovo region of Russia. The company comprises three underground mines, one open-pit operation, a coal preparation plant, as well as a coal transportation network and a number of integrated infrastructure companies. Raspadskaya is a subsidiary of a vertically integrated steel, mining and vanadium company EVRAZ.