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Kuzembaeva Mine

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Summary

Mine TypeUnderground
StatusActive
Commodities
  • Coal (metallurgical)
  • Coal (thermal)
Mining Method
  • Longwall
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SnapshotThe Kuzembaeva Coal Mine is part of Qarmet JSC’s Coal Department (Karaganda Mine Complex). Qarmet JSC’s Coal Department includes eight mines and the Vostochnaya coal preparation plant. The mines produce primarily metallurgical coal.

As of June 2, 2025, at the Kuzembaev mine, Qarmet is building a new ventilation shaft more than 500 meters deep.

The new facility is being implemented as part of a large-scale modernization program. The construction will allow the enterprise to begin developing new coal seams with confirmed reserves of more than 22 million tons.

Preparations are currently underway for the fourth stage of construction – installation of a permanent lifting machine and a pile driver designed for transporting people and cargo.

Owners

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CompanyInterestOwnership
Qarmet JSC (operator) 100 % Direct
Qazaqstan Steel Group 100 % Indirect
Kuzembaeva mine is owned and operated by Qarmet JSC (formerly ArcelorMittal Temirtau).

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Deposit type

  • Sedimentary

Summary:

The coal mines of Qarmet JSC (former ArcelorMittal Temirtau) are located in the Karaganda Coal Basin. The basin is more than 3,000 square kilometers and was formed by strata of Upper Devonian and Carbonic ages, Mesozoic and Cainozoic formations. Due to structural peculiarities, the coal basin is divided into three geology-based mining areas: Karagandinskiy, Sherubay-Nurinskiy and Tentekskiy.

Karaganda basin is located on the area of the same name and in the center of this region. Carbon coal-content area occupies the land of about 2000 km2 at the total thickness 4000m. Four synclines are notable in the basin: Tentek, Sherubainur, Karaganda and Verkhnesokursk, first three of them make an industrial part of basin and are studied full enough up to the depths 700-1300m.

Productive sediments are represented by Ashlyarik, Karaganda, Dolinsk and Tentek series which contain up to 30 coal seams with the total working thickness 40m, coal ash content varies within the limits of 10-35 % with the tendency of reduction upwards the section. The most-widely spread are coals of types from hvBb to mvb. Karaganda basin is considered as a high gas content and gas content seams intensively grow from the beginning of methane zone up to 400-500m reaching 15-20 m3/t, and are more stabilized on the depth within the limits of 22-27 m3/t. Gas weathering zone depth varies within the limits of 60-250 m.

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Comminution

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Processing

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Commodity Production

Combined production numbers are reported under Karaganda Coal Mines Complex

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Production Costs

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Personnel

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