MarrTEK to put 2 bln rubles into Stepanovsky coal pit in 2011
KEMEROVO. Aug 25 (Interfax) - The company group MarrTEK will this year put some 2 billion rubles into the development in the Stepanovsky coal pit in the Novoskuznetsky district of Kemerovo Region, chairman of the group's board of directors Ralif Safin told the press on Thursday.
The bulk of the money will go to acquiring equipment for extracting and processing coal. Several Doosan Moxy and Bell dump trucks, excavators, bulldozers, drilling rigs, and auxiliary equipment have already been purchased. The enterprise is introducing a program for monitoring and controlling transportation using GLONASS/GPS navigation.
Expectations are that 1.1 million tonnes of coal will be brought out of the pit this year (400,000 tonnes last year). The plan for 2012 is 1.5 million tonnes and for 2013 - 1.7 million tonnes. Full capacity output of 2.5 million tonnes is expected in 2014.
Projected investments for 2012 come to 2.5-2.7 billion rubles.
In 2012, a cyclic flow line is to be launched at the pit, which will be able to shift up to 25 million tonnes of overburden per year. MarrTEK will also be launching a loading complex with a railway line to the station Abagur-Lesnoi, the railway station Stepanovskaya and a closed coal dump. The complex is rated at an annual departure of 400,000 tonnes of coal. The introduction of this scheme will provide the opportunity to make work at the Stepanovsky pit more rhythmic. The project has a budget estimated at 750 million rubles, with a recoupment period of two and a half years.
This past February, Safin announced that the acquisition this year of imported equipment will allow the enterprise to replace 90% of what it rents with its own.
The pit commenced industrial operations on February 5, 2010 at the Stepanovsky section of the bituminous coal deposit Razvedchik. MarrTEK obtained the rights to open it in 2008. This spring, the group acquired the resources of deep horizons at the section, after wining an auction for the section Stepanovsky Glubokiy 1. The coalmining enterprise's aggregate resources amount to roughly 50 million tonnes of T coal. That is sufficient to keep the company operating continuously for the next 27 years.
The company group MarrTEK LLC was founded in 2007. It possesses the Stepanovsky pit in Kemerovo Region, the under-construction mine Khmelevskaya, the auto-assembly factory KuzbassAvto, and the agricultural enterprise Kolos.
