Coal output in Russia's Kuzbass rallies 4% MoM in August

After the brief decline the month before, production of all types of coal in Russia's Kuzbass region in southwestern Siberia during August climbed back to 15.3 million tonnes, basically on-par with June's output and up 4% from July. Mysteel Global calculated based on the latest industry data from the Ministry of Coal Industry of Kuzbass. On a yearly basis, the August volume was higher by 2%.

The Kuzbass ministry provided no specific data on coal output last month but during a meeting with Russian Energy Minister Sergei Tsivilev earlier in September, Kuzbass Governor Ilya Seredyuk had put the region's output at 122.6 million tonnes over January-August. Given that January-July output totaled 107.4 million tonnes, as