Solntsevsky Coal Mine, Uglegorsk, Sakhalin, Russia
The Solntsevsky coal mine is an openpit coal mining operation by East Mining Company (EMCO) in the Sakhalin region of Russia. Although experimental mining in the Uglegorsk region was started in 1983, the Solntevsky coal mine became the first opencast mine to commence commercial operations in the Sakhalin mining region in 1987.. In 2011, EMCO acquired the licenses to work at the Yuzhnuy2 ...