The Raspadskaya mine announced production results for the first quarter of 2018. For the quarter, the company announced that it boosted coal production 22.8% year-on-year. Coal output was 2 million tons in, up 372,000 tons on the same period in 2017.

For the year 2018, the company expects coal production would be virtually unchanged in 2018 at 7 million tons with total production of 12 million tons.