COAL INDUSTRY OF EAST SIBERIA AND THE SOVIET FAR EAST

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• Publication Date: September 4, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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CLASSIFICATION CONFIDENTIAL
CENTRAL INTELLIGE NCNCY
INFORMATION FROM
FOREIGN DOCUMENTS OR RADIO BROADCASTS
CD NO.
DATE OF
COUNTRY USSR
SUBJECT Economic - Coal mining
HOW
PUBLISHED Daily newspapers, monthly periodlcLis
WHERE
PUbJSHED USSR
DATE
PUBLISHED 6 Mar - Jun 1953
LANGUAGE Russian
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DATE DIST. y Sep 1953
SUPPLEMENT TO
REPORT NO.
THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
Newspapers and periodicals as indicated.
COAL INDUSTRY OF EAST SIBERIA AND THE SOVIET FAR EAST
Vostsibugol' Combine
Mine No 15 of the Vostsibugol' Combine is working a coal seam 1.4 meters
thick, without interlayers of rock. The seam dips at an angle of 5 degrees.
It has a stable roof, a firm floor, and only a slight water content. The con-
tinuous method of mining is used, and roof control is effected by complete
caving.
In recent years the mine has received many new mining machines and mecha-
nisms. Heavy KMP-1 cutting machines operate at the face and are also used for
loading coal onto the conveyer. The STR-30 conveyer transports coal from the
face, the SKR-11 conveyer carries it along passages parallel to the face and
along crosscuts, and battery electric locom.,tives move it along the haulage
passage to the main shaft.
All three sections of the mine are operating on the cyc).e work schedule,
with coal extracted during two shifts and the third shift reserved for repairs
and development work. In order not to overtax underground transport, the
development shifts of the working faces are organized at different times of the
day.
During the hour before the arrival of the development brigade at the face,
electricians' are let down into the mine to inspect the cutting machine, located
at the lower part of the face, transfer the cables, and check the condition of
the conveyer drive, the engine, and the starting upparatus. One coal face in
Mine No 15 is 100 meters long and two KMP-1 cutting machines operate there.(l)
Krasnoyarskugol' Combine; Kanskugol' Trust
In the mines of the Kansk basin, development work is carried on at an av-
erage speed of 40-50 meters per month. The experience of a brigade working
in Mine No 3 proved that this rate can be more than doubled. This brigade cut
passage No 34 in section No 1 where the seam being worked was 2.2 meters thick
and dipped at an angle of up to 5 degrees. The rock in the floor and roof of
the seas was soft argillite and the coal was medium tough.
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apart. The cutting was carriedroutywithoutadamagewtodthefroofsor floorte Bore-
holes were drilled along the coal with ER-5 electric drills, each drilling
aggregate consisting of a rod 2.2 - 2.5 meters long and a one-meter-long drill.
Coal was loaded by S-153 coal-loading machines onto railroad cars with a capa-
city of 0.8 ton. At a distance of 150 meters from the working front, a railroad
siding with room for nine cars was constructed, and temporary rails were laid
from the siding to the face. The empty cars were moved by gravity 7.00-150
meters from the siding to the face, while loaded cars were hauled by LU-15
winches.
The development brigade consisted of six persons, two for each of the three
shifts. The work plan provided for the completion of one cycle per shift.
After a careful inspection of all mechanisms, one member of the brigade started
to drill boreholes in the face, the other to lay the temporary tracks. The
depth of the boreholes was 2.2 meters, and each of them was charged with 0.8
kilogram of ammonite. Specifications for blasting operations provided for a
breakdown of 2 meters of coal per blast.
The miners finished all development operations in hours, including
blasting and ventilation of the face. Then they started to woad coal. One
worker managed the loading machine while the other one saw to it that empty
cars arrived from the siding and that full cars were moved away. Coal was
removed from the passage in two stages of 8 - 10 cars each. Loading of coal
and delivery of one lot of cars to the main haulage passage took 25-30 minutes.
In October, the brigade, working in passage No 34, cut 101 meters; in
November, 95 meters. These figures were not bad for conditions prevailing
in the Kansk basin but they did not satisfy the workers, who held meetings,
revealed bottlenecks in the work, and planned concrete measures to eliminate
them. In December, 127 meters of the assembly passage were cut. The bri-
gade fulfilled its norm an average of 141 percent, and each of its members
received 2,500 - 3,100 rubles
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Khakassug01' Trust
Khakasskaya Autonomous Oblast, which is rich in natural deposits, 's lo-
cated in Siberia, in southern Krasnoyarskiy Kray. Cherncgorsk, the center of
the oblast's coal industry, is situated ne,r Abakan, the capital of the oblast.
The coal industry of the area is managed by the Khakassugol' 'c'rust, which is
a member of the Krasnoyarskugol' Combine. Mine No 15 is an outstanding mine
of the Khakassugol' Trust.(2)
Primorskugol' Combine; Artemugol' Trust
On 4 March, miners of the Artemugol' trust delivered their usual Ldailyl]
above-plan trainload of coal, an accomplishment which they have been achieving
since the beginning of 1953.(3) Mine No 3-ts of the same trust resolved to
mine several trainloads off
f above-plan coal by 1 May. In 7 days of April the
mine had delivered 300 more tons of coal than provided for in their obligations
and thus achieved the level planned for the last year the Fisch Five-Year
Plan. (4)
Mine No 7-7-bis of the Artemugol' Trust is working the Artemovskiy deposit,
which consists of rock of the Tertiary period and contains sandy, clayey shales,
clays, and sends. There are seven coal seams, five of which are thick enough
to work. These seams diu at the slight angle of 5 - 8 degrees. Compared with
the unstable, friable rock surrounding it, the coal seems very tough and stable.
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At present, Mine No 7-7-bis is working coal seams V12 and VI1. These seams
and the surrounding rock are separated by a cleavage extending in a direction
close to a meridian (7 - 8 degrees northeast), with the cleavage plane dipping
west at an angle of 68 - 80 degrees.
In the experimental sections of Mine No 7-7-bis, mining operations in the
rock associated with seam V12 were very difficult. In the floor of the seam
there are rocks very inclined to heaving -- carbonaceous-clayey, porous shale,
and brown clay; in the immediate roof over the coal -- unstable brown clay;
in the roof above this -- sandy-clayey rock layers and between them a coal seam
not thick enough to work. The thickness of the rock increases gradually from
2.5 meters to 15 meters from east to west. Above lies the caved-in rock of
the roof of seam VI1 which was worked out in 1949 - 1950.
In working the Artemovskiy deposit, it was discovered that faces located
in a crosswise direction from the line of cleavage or at an angle of more than
45 degrees to it are more favorably situated than faces parallel to the line
of cleavage or at an angle of less than 45 degrees to it.(5)
Suchanugol' Trust
Mine No 21 of the Suchanugol' Trust had to its credit, as of 25 March 1953,
seven or more times the amount of above-plan coal that it had in February.
Every fourth ton extracted by Mine No 21 is above-plan fuel.(6)
On 28 March, workers of the Lipovetskiy Mine Administration completed the
quarter plan for extracting coal. Reconstruction of the underground economy
is being carried out in this enterprise as in other mines of Primorskiy (Cray.
Old cutting machines are being replaced by more powerful, two-bar ones. Faces
and development workings are equipped with loading machines. New electric loco-
motives have been added to the mine rolling stock, and loading of coal onto
railroad cars has been completely mechanized. Since the beginning of 1953,
the mine administration has been delivering daily 80 - 100 tons of coal above
its planned capacity.
Mine No 10 has considerably exceeded its pl?.nned capacity. In 1952, this
mine was considered the least mechanized mine in the Suchanugol' Trust. How-
ever, the mine workers did a capital repair job on the mine workings, recon-
structing and deepening the main shaft and thus improving the delivery of coal
to the surface. Expanding the operational front, workers of the mine attained
first place among enterprises of the Suchanuqul' Trust.(7) The miners promised
to deliver several trainloadv rf above-plan coal by 1 May. As of 10 April, they
had already extracte4 three times more coal than they had pledged.(4)
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