OREANDA-NEWS. September 17, 2012. It was in late June that Berezovsky's team launched operations at long wall block No. 67-08 holding 2,829 mln tonnes, and already in July the team set the Russia record - 827,000 tonnes per month. The long wall is mined using a mechanized coal winning system comprising 175 mechanized supports by DBT (Bucyrus), an SL-500 shearer loader (Eickhoff), a PF4/1132 longwall conveyor, a PF4/1132 gate-road conveyor, an SK11/11 crusher and a В-1600 belt loader. The long wall is peculiar in that the coal from the production face is transported to the industrial site using a conveyor chain consisting of 3 belt conveyors with 1,600 mm wide belts and the productivity rate of 3,500 metric tons per hour. On the surface, a radial HE-K2L1600 belt stacker boasting the productivity rate of 3,500 metric tons per hour forms a coal storage.

"Today we are winning 3 million already in September, though until quite recently such an indicator has been a year-end target of the whole enterprise. The increase in coal winning was provided for by a large scale investment program aimed at re-equipment of the facilities, making it possible for the face workload to be increased and the safety of mining to be improved considerably, and was also contributed to by high-achievement work practices of the professional team," noted Mikhail Lupiy, director of Taldinskoye-Zapadnoye mine administration.