Coal production in Russia up 0.7% in 10M 2023 — statistics
Business & Economy
November 29, 2023, 19:23
Production of other coal grades ticked up by 0.4% to 38.2 mln metric tons
MOSCOW, November 29. /TASS/. Russia’s coal production in January - October 2023 added 0.7% in annual terms and totaled 353 mln metric tons, the Federal State Statistics Service (Rosstat) said.
Hard coal production contracted by 0.4% to 279 mln metric tons in the reporting period. Production moved up for anthracite by 6.5% to 22 mln metric tons and declined for coking coal by 3.6% to 84.3 mln metric tons. Brown coal extraction added 4.9% to 73.6 mln metric tons. Production of other coal grades ticked up by 0.4% to 38.2 mln metric tons.
Coal production in October 2023 plunged by 0.8% year on year to 38.2 mln metric tons.