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Main mineral deposits on the territory of the Russian Federation
Kansk-Achinsk coal basin
Located in the Krasnoyarsk Territory, partly in the Kemerovo and Irkutsk Regions. The Kansk-Achinsk coal basin extends for 800 km along the Trans-Siberian Railway. In the basin, 24 fields have been identified, Sayano-Partizanskoye, Irsha-Borodinskoye, Abanskoye, Barandatskoye, Itatskoe, Berezovskoye, Nazarovskoye, Bogotolskoye, Uryupskoye being the most important of them. The Kansk-Achinsk coal basin has the most significant reserves of energy lignite produced by the open method. In 2012, annual coal production in the basin exceeded 42 million tons; the Borodinskiy coal mine is Russia’s largest coal mining enterprise, its average capacity over the past decade being 19.4 million tons/year, with the maximum output of 24.7 million tons/year was reached in 2008. Over the last decade, the group of major mines was also joined by Berezovsky (the decade average capacity being 6 million tons/year), Nazarovskiy (4.3 million tons/year) and Pereyaslovskiy (4 million tons/year).
