Mechel, one of the leading Russian mining and steel groups, has announced the launch of its US-based subsidiary Mechel Bluestone's newest coal processing plant for washing coal mined at Keystone Operations near Keystone, West Virginia.
Accordingly, Mechel Bluestone's K2 plant, worth $12 million in investments, can process up to three million mt of run-of-mine coal per year. The annual production volume at the first stage is expected to exceed one million mt.
The plant can efficiently recover high quality low-volatile coking coal from high reject material common to thin-seam mining operations, and will allow Mechel Bluestone to double its production of low-volatile coking coal.