Siberian Anthracite Siberian Anthracite Siberian Anthracite () is Russia's largest producer of ultra high grade anthracite. The company, which has its headquarters in Novosibirsk region, produces anthracite from open-strip mines in the Gorlovsky Coal Basin of Western Siberia, where its reserves are estimated over 351 Mt under JORC as of 1, April 2013. Siberian Anthracite's production assets are located in the Iskitim district of Novosibirsk oblast. The company's assets include five coal reserves, two processing facilities and a fleet of transport and other equipment. It is the largest coal company in Novosibirsk region, with more than 2,200 employees. In 2006, the company
History of anthracite coal mining in Pennsylvania British navy blockades through during the war, industrialist Josiah White set his mill supervisors the task of experimenting with Anthracite to get to ignite and burn in a useful way. In 1813, the first mining actually in the Lehigh Valley was begun at Beaver Meadows, however, because of the various struggles getting it the to Philadelphia and because it is far more difficult to ignite Anthracite with its sporadic and unreliable supply did not come to be generally used regularly until after the War of 1812 and Hazard and White showed the way. The developments of the canal and then