Bogatyr Access Komir

Bogatyr Access Komir (BAK) is the largest coal mining group in Kazakhstan. With a production of 42 million tonnes of coal in 2008, it had a share of circa 40 % of the country's coal output (totalling 105 million tons in 2008). In 1985 the Bogatyr Mine produced 56.8 million tonnes of coal thus entering the Guinness Book of World Records for being the world's largest single coal mine. In 2007, the production of the mine was about 40 million tons of coal. Together with the neighbouring Severnyi mine, the oldest mine in the Ekibastuz coal basin (Pavlodar province), they hold reserves estimated at 4.5 billion ton of coal, which at the current production rate give them a residual lifetime of over 100 years. The Bogatyr and Severnyi mines are...