Siberian Anthracite launched a 10-year investment programme targeting an increase in production to 9.5 million tons a year. At present, the company’s production capacity is to mine more than 5 million tonnes of ROM UHG anthracite. The company exports most of its production (85% in 2010), largely to customers in south-east Asia such as Hyundai Steel. Anthracite produced by the company is used mostly an input material for the steel-making process. It can be substituted for coke in blast furnaces, and is also used in pulverised coal injection and iron-ore sintering and pelletising, as well as production of electrodes. Siberian Anthracite is
Anthracite February 1808, by Judge Jesse Fell in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, on an open grate in a fireplace. Anthracite differs from wood in that it needs a draft from the bottom, and Judge Fell proved with his grate design that it was a viable heating fuel. In spring 1808, John and Abijah Smith shipped the first commercially mined load of anthracite down the Susquehanna River from Plymouth, Pennsylvania, marking the birth of commercial anthracite mining in the United States. From that first mine, production rose to an all-time high of over 100 million tons in 1917. Anthracite usage was inhibited by the