The Cabinet of Ministers wants to sell 100% of lisichanskugg. The government’s refusal of the idea to sell the mines separately found the company by surprise

The government has amended the list of mines planned for privatization in 2012-2014. According to the resolution of the Cabinet of Ministers of July 17, which was recently published on his website, 11 mines were excluded from the list of enterprises previously planned for privatization. For the most part, these are insignificant from the point of view of the volume of coal production of the enterprise: only 3 mines of these 11 mined in 2012 more than 100 thousand tons of coal.

Three mines that are part of the lisichanskugol PJSC are also excluded from the list: “Miner named after G. Kapustina ”,“ Zhulnyanskaya ”and“ Novodaruzhevskaya ”. However, the same resolution of the Cabinet of Ministers included the entire lisichanskugol association, which now has the status of a public joint -stock company.
It is noteworthy that in addition to the three of the aforementioned mines, lisichanskuggi also includes Mina. Melnikova ”, which provides the main share of coal mining: if the three shafts excluded from the list in 2012 mined 126 thousand tons of coal, then“ Miner named after Melnikova ” - 534 thousand tons. This enterprise is also the most significant increase in production: for comparison, in 2011 the mine got 302 thousand tons of coal.

Back in 2010, the Ministry of Coal Industry raised the question of the privatization of coal enterprises, depending on their investment attractiveness. In particular, in July of that year, Minogleprom divided the mines into three groups: investmently attractive, capable of being investmently attractive under certain conditions and subject to liquidation.

The list of attractive mines also included “Mine to them. Melnikova ”, all the rest - on the list of potentially attractive. At the same time, the previous edition of the list of mines to privatize included three mines of the association from the second group, and there was no largest, which was considered more attractive.
Unions sharply opposed the sale of mines separately, since the staff of coal enterprises uninteresting to the investor most likely would expect dismissal after their closure.

The flagship of the association is “Mine to them. Melnikova ” - provides high volumes of coal production, since investments have been invested in it in recent years. In the past few years, new lava have opened in this mine and equipment has been purchased, but this became possible after attracting a loan of $ 85 million (at 7 percent per annum until 2020), which allocated the State Bank for the development of the PRC.

It is worth considering that the most promising mines have already been sold out by investors, so it is unlikely that anyone will be interested in a loss-making enterprise: according to lisichanskugol, its revenue for 2012 amounted to 138.5 million UAH, while the cost of sold products-238.9 million UAH. And finally, the situation on the coal market in 2013 with a fall in demand