Kazakhstan produced 111 million tons of coal in 2019
Last year, the country's coal mining companies, with a plan of 107.1 million tons, produced 111.1 million tons of coal. 57.2 million tons of coal were shipped to energy-producing enterprises, 6.3 million tons of coal to industrial enterprises. 11.4 million tons of coal were produced for household needs and the population, Strategy2050.kz reports with reference to the Ministry of Industry and Infrastructural Development of Kazakhstan.
Coal is shipped to energy and industrial enterprises at selling prices of the opencast mines under direct contracts. The bulk of coal for domestic consumers and the population is sold through commodity exchanges. The price of coal for household needs and the population consists of the price of shipment of the mine (within 3-6 thousand tenge per ton, depending on the conditions of development), railway tariffs for transportation, maintenance of rolling stock, exchange value of coal, and also the margin of intermediary organizations and individuals delivering coal to the population.
Exports amounted to about 28 million tons, or 96% compared to 2018. The largest volumes of coal were exported to Russia, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Belarus, Ukraine and Turkey.
In Kazakhstan, there are all the main segments of the coal industry, with the extraction and use of thermal coal are especially developed. The coal industry is one of the largest sectors of the economy and provides for the production of about 70% of the electric power, a full load of coke and chemical production, and fully satisfies the fuel needs of the public sector and the population. Explored coal reserves amount to almost 34 billion tons, or 4% of the world's reserves. By this figure, Kazakhstan is among the ten leading countries in the world.
To develop the coal industry 2019 saw the Roadmap for the development of the coal industry of Kazakhstan for 2019-2021 was developed and approved, as well as the Plan of the need for coal products for communal needs and the population for the period 2019-2020 was laid out . The priority issues were the development of coal chemistry, as well as deep integrated processing of coal to produce products with high added value.
Modern technologies allow the production of more than 5 thousand types of processed products from coal. These are ferroalloys, silicon metal, building materials, carbon black, carbon sorbents, etc.
