Review of the Soviet coal industry in 1989

Journal Article · Fri Jun 01 00:00:00 EDT 1990 · International Geology Review; (United States)

OSTI ID:5655683

Sagers, M J

Coal production (gross mine output) in the USSR declined by 32 million tons (4.1 percent) in 1989, from 772 million tons to 740 million. A major reason for this was the coal miners' strike in July that affected most of the major producing areas, and labor unrest continued in several basins for the remainder of the year. Officially, the year-end report says the strike was responsible for a shortfall of about 7 million tons of coal, but this probably only includes the July work stoppage and not the slowdown and periodic strikes that occurred sporadically during the rest of the year. Because of the decline in coking coal production, one of the sectors most affected by the strike was the iron and steel industry. Many other activities related to the coal industry were affected by the strike as well. For example, construction and tunneling crews walked off the job with the miners, resulting in 13 million tons of coal extraction capacity (42 percent of the planned total for the USSR) failing to be completed. The same was true of 18.7 million tons of coal processing capacity, which was 100 percent of the USSR plan. A table gives coal production figures from 1970-89 (in 5-year increments then every year from 1986) for different geographical areas, for different types of coal, and for strip and underground mining.

• OSTI ID: 5655683
• Journal Information: International Geology Review; (United States), Vol. 32:6; ISSN 0020-6814
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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01 COAL, LIGNITE, AND PEAT
COAL INDUSTRY
PRODUCTIVITY
USSR
ANTHRACITE
BITUMINOUS COAL
CAPACITY
COAL
COAL MINERS
COAL MINES
COAL PREPARATION PLANTS
COKING
CONSTRUCTION
DATA COMPILATION
ECONOMICS
HISTORICAL ASPECTS
IRON ORES
LABOR RELATIONS
METAL INDUSTRY
MINE DRIVAGE
PLANNING
PRODUCTION
REGIONAL ANALYSIS
STEAM GENERATION
STEELS
SURFACE MINING
UNDERGROUND MINING
ALLOYS
ASIA
BLACK COAL
CARBONACEOUS MATERIALS
CARBONIZATION
CHEMICAL REACTIONS
DATA
DECOMPOSITION
DEVELOPED COUNTRIES
ENERGY SOURCES
EUROPE
FOSSIL FUELS
FUELS
INDUSTRIAL PLANTS
INDUSTRY
INFORMATION
IRON ALLOYS
IRON BASE ALLOYS
MATERIALS
MINERS
MINES
MINING
ORES
PERSONNEL
UNDERGROUND FACILITIES
015000* - Coal
Lignite
& Peat- Economic
Industrial
& Business Aspects