Coal mine “Molodezhny. General information about the Molodezhny open-pit mine Coal open-pit mines in the Molodezhny village

July 20th, 2013 , 06:00 pm

The Molodezhny open-pit mine is the largest coal mining enterprise in the Karaganda region. At the moment, 7,000,000 tons of coal are mined there per year.

Once upon a time there was a steppe here and nothing foreshadowed trouble

Now there is a huge quarry where coal has been mined around the clock for 30 years. They say there will be enough coal for another 50 years.

The coal-bearing formation of the deposit includes three coal seams with a total thickness of 44.5 m. The coals of the seams are high-ash (over 40% ash), difficult to enrich, and the calorific value is relatively low. The bulk of the products are supplied to power plants that are part of the Kazakhmys group.

The design capacity of the mine is 10,000,000 tons per year

BelAZ trucks with a carrying capacity of up to 130 tons are used to transport coal.

The excavators used are also quite large. For example, this bucket can rake up to 12 tons of coal at a time

The person in the background looks tiny

Loading

Detailed exploration of the Borly deposit was carried out by the Gapeevsky expedition in 1979-1981. Three coal horizons were identified with an average seam thickness of 8.8; 22.3 and 26.6 m and coal saturation, respectively, 25, 65 and 65%. The average stripping ratio is 2.0 m 3 /t. The maximum depth of the seams is 225 m. Refractory coals with an ash content of 39 to 47% are suitable for use only as energy fuel.

Today, the Molodezhny mine staff consists of 1,150 people, including social workers. They work on a rotational basis every 5 days. Work shift - 11 hours. About 70 percent of the workers are local, from the Molodezhny village and surrounding villages, and 30 percent come from Karaganda and other remote places. The average salary is about 44 thousand tenge, and excavator drivers and dump truck drivers receive 90-100 thousand tenge. The issue of increasing the average salary to 50 thousand tenge is being considered.

The excavator is powered by a 6 kV cable

Water sprinklers constantly run along the technological roads in the section, but in the heat the water sprinklers cannot cope and there is still dust

In the BelAZ cab, like in the cab of any other truck

Let's go for unloading

BelAZ drivers make approximately 35 flights per day

Shift driver

Walking excavators are also used at the mine, the productivity of which is higher than that of conventional ones.

It looks like a 5-story house with an arrow

Peter and the excavator

Dmitry and the ladle

Inside an excavator

General information about the Molodezhny open-pit mine

The basin is located in a latitudinal, elongated depression filled with Triassic-Jurassic and overlain by Cenozoic sediments. Triassic-Jurassic deposits are represented by coarse clastic rocks, sandstones, silts, coals and mudstones, divided into formations: Ashchikol (thickness 200-750 m), Taldykol (170-340 m), Shoptykol (260-290 m), Zhirenkol (up to 100 m) ). Coal-bearing deposits form a large synclinal structure, elongated in the latitudinal direction for 70 km, with a maximum width of 20 km, complicated by two systems of faults and a number of folds of the second and third orders.

The occurrence of coal seams is gentle (3-5°, gently plunging in the northern direction), in places of difficulty up to 10°. The main coal content is associated with deposits of the Shoptykol and Zhirenkol formations (horizons II-III and I-III, layers Zh-1 and Zh-2), thickness of layers 2 - 48 m, average - 5-12.5 m. The overall coefficient of coal content is 6. 5%, industrial - 4.5%. The Shoptykol coal deposit has been developed since 1934. Production is 0.19 million tons (1984). Coal is used by enterprises of the Ministry of Tsvetmet and CCCP and state farms of the Pavlodar region. A site has been developed at the deposit for the construction of a coal mine with a capacity of 20 million tons per year.

Table 1 presents the main indicators of coal produced at the Molodezhny open-pit mine of the Borly deposit.

Table 1. Indicators of the Molodezhny open-pit mine

Class, mm
Ash content (average), %
Moisture (maximum), %
Sulfur (ultimate), %
Heat of combustion (average), kcal/kg
Yield of volatile substances, %
Plastic layer thickness, mm
Plastometric shrinkage, mm
Grindability coefficient
Ash melting temperature, C

The Molodezhny coal mine is located near Karaganda. It produces 7 million tons of coal per year. A huge quarry, huge BelAZ cars...

To be honest, I had no idea how and what Kazakhstan lives now, and what I saw gave me mixed feelings. It so happened that I flew to Astana and decided not to pick up a camera, but just take a walk around the capital, soak up the local atmosphere. I walked half the city and everywhere I was greeted by clean streets, smiling people, beautiful buildings, fountains, monuments, etc. I was pleased to walk around the capital of Kazakhstan. For example, in Russia I was able to walk the streets with pleasure only in two cities - Kazan and St. Petersburg.

Astana is the capital, it must be beautiful. Out of habit, I expected to see the opposite picture in the periphery - Karaganda, and even more so on an ordinary collective farm, where we happened to look by chance. But even there I didn’t see any fallen fences, destroyed cowsheds or alcoholics with a bottle of alcohol on the street. As for Karaganda, it reminded me of our mining town Prokopyevsk (Kuzbass), only a little better gentrified, which is also good.

I couldn’t shake the feeling that we were being deceived, that we were being taken specially to those places where everything was fine and they didn’t show the signs, but doubts were dispelled by the people at the factories with whom we communicated. People were happy with their work and told us that the government was helping them.

On the one hand, I was glad that everything is fine in Kazakhstan and people live with confidence in their future. On the other hand, I’m offended that we have in Russia the situation is slightly worse. It’s probably not worth even explaining what this deplorability is.

But let’s return to the coal mine and the BelAZ trucks that drive through it. The Molodezhny open-pit mine is the largest coal mining enterprise in the Karaganda region.

Once upon a time there was a steppe here and nothing foreshadowed trouble:

Now there is a huge quarry where coal has been mined around the clock for 30 years... They say that there will be enough coal for another 50 years.

The deposit includes three coal seams with a total thickness of 44.5 meters. The bulk of the products are supplied to power plants that are part of the Kazakhmys group.

The design capacity of the mine is 10,000,000 tons per year.

BelAZ trucks with a carrying capacity of up to 130 tons are used to transport coal:

The excavators used are also quite large. For example, this bucket can rake up to 12 tons of rock at a time:

The man in the background looks tiny:

In the cabin:

Loading:

The maximum depth of the layers is 225 m.

Today, the Molodezhny mine staff consists of 1,150 people, including social workers. They work on a rotational basis every 5 days. Work shift - 11 hours. About 70 percent of the workers are local, from the Molodezhny village and surrounding villages, and 30 percent come from Karaganda and other remote places. The average salary is about 44 thousand tenge, and excavator drivers and dump truck drivers receive 90 - 100 thousand tenge (19-21 thousand rubles at the exchange rate). The issue of increasing the average salary to 50 thousand tenge is being considered.

The excavator is powered by a 6 kV cable:

Water sprinklers constantly run along the technological roads in the section, but in the heat the water sprinklers cannot cope and there is still dust:

Let's go for unloading:

BelAZ drivers make approximately 35 flights per day.

Coal was the first fossil fuel used by humans. It enabled the industrial revolution. For the formation of coal, abundant accumulation of plant matter is necessary. In ancient peat bogs, starting from the Devonian period (about 400 million years ago), organic matter accumulated, from which fossil coals were formed without access to oxygen. Most commercial fossil coal deposits date from this period, although younger deposits also exist. The age of the oldest coals is estimated at approximately 300-400 million years.

To be honest, I had no idea how and what Kazakhstan lives now, and what I saw gave me mixed feelings. It so happened that I arrived in Astana a day earlier than the guys and decided not to pick up a camera, but just take a walk around the capital, soak up the local atmosphere. I walked half the city and everywhere I was greeted by clean streets, smiling people, beautiful buildings, fountains, monuments, etc. I was pleased to walk around the capital of Kazakhstan. For example, in Russia I was able to walk the streets with pleasure only in two cities - Kazan and St. Petersburg.
Astana is the capital, it must be beautiful. Out of habit, I expected to see the opposite picture in the periphery - Karaganda, and even more so on an ordinary collective farm, where we happened to look by chance. But even there I didn’t see any fallen fences, destroyed cowsheds or alcoholics with a bottle of alcohol on the street. As for Karaganda, it reminded me of our mining town Prokopyevsk (Kuzbass), only a little better gentrified, which is also good.
I couldn’t shake the feeling that we were being deceived, that we were being taken specially to those places where everything was fine and they didn’t show the signs, but doubts were dispelled by the people at the factories with whom we communicated. People were happy with their work and told us that the government was helping them.
On the one hand, I was glad that everything is fine in Kazakhstan and people live with confidence in their future. On the other hand, I am offended that the situation in Russia is slightly worse. It’s probably not worth even explaining what this deplorability is. I know that LiveJournal is blocked in Kazakhstan, but what if someone from there reads me through an anonymizer or something else, tell me - we were deceived, zombified and everything is bad in Kazakhstan? Or is everything as I described? :)

But let’s return to the coal mine and the BelAZ trucks that drive through it. The Molodezhny open-pit mine is the largest coal mining enterprise in the Karaganda region. At the moment, 7,000,000 tons of coal are mined there per year.

3. Now there is a huge quarry where coal has been mined around the clock for 30 years. They say that there will be enough coal for another 50 years.

The coal-bearing formation of the deposit includes three coal seams with a total thickness of 44.5 m. The coals of the seams are high-ash (over 40% ash), difficult to enrich, and the calorific value is relatively low. The bulk of the products are supplied to power plants that are part of the Kazakhmys group.
4. By the way, a question for experts: high-ash coals are low-quality coals, the combustion of which harms the atmosphere somewhat more than the combustion of coal with a low ash content? Or today they know how to enrich / filter / burn such coal without harm?

5. The design capacity of the mine is 10,000,000 tons per year

6. BelAZ trucks with a carrying capacity of up to 130 tons are used to transport coal/rock.

7. The excavators used are also quite large. For example, this bucket can rake up to 12 tons of rock/coal at a time

9. The person in the background looks tiny

10. In the cockpit

12. Loading

13. Detailed exploration of the Borly deposit was carried out by the Gapeevsky expedition in 1979 - 1981. Three coal horizons were identified with an average seam thickness of 8.8; 22.3 and 26.6 m and coal saturation of 25, 65 and 65%, respectively. The average stripping ratio is 2.0 m3/t. The maximum depth of the seams is 225 m. Refractory coals with an ash content of 39 to 47% are suitable for use only as energy fuel.

14. Today, the Molodezhny mine staff consists of 1,150 people, including social workers. They work on a rotational basis every 5 days. Work shift - 11 hours. About 70 percent of the workers are local, from the Molodezhny village and surrounding villages, and 30 percent come from Karaganda and other remote places. The average salary is about 44 thousand tenge, and excavator drivers and dump truck drivers receive 90 - 100 thousand tenge. The issue of increasing the average salary to 50 thousand tenge is being considered.

18. The excavator is powered by a 6 kV cable

19. Ladle

20. Water sprinklers constantly run along the technological roads in the section, but in the heat the water sprinklers cannot cope and there is still dust

21. In the BelAZ cab, like in the cab of any other truck

22. Let's go for unloading

23. BelAZ drivers make approximately 35 flights per day

26. Coal

27. Shift driver

28. Walking excavators are also used at the mine, the productivity of which is higher than that of conventional ones.

29. It looks like a 5-story house with an arrow

30. Peter and the excavator

31. Dmitry and the ladle

The Borly coal deposit is located in the steppes of the Osakarovsky district of the Karaganda region, 116 kilometers from Karaganda. It was opened a long time ago, at the end of the 19th century. Since 1896, its development began in small quantities, first by the Russian merchant Derov, then by the Administration of the South Siberian Railway, in the early 30s by a stationary geological exploration party, and later, until 1949, by state farms. In total, about 10 thousand tons of coal were extracted from the quarry.

In the early 80s, on the initiative of the general director of the Karagandaugol production association N.A. Drizhd, the Karagandagiproshakht Institute carried out design studies (chief engineer of the project R.I. Ridel) to increase the production of thermal coal by open pit method. At the same time, options were considered for the construction of coal mines in the lignite deposits of Verkhne-Sokurskoye and Dubovskoye, and in the coal deposits of Borly. Despite the rather low quality of coal, preference was given to the Borly deposit, where mining and geological conditions and significant reserves made it possible to build a high-capacity quarry. In addition, the Borly deposit is located in a developed area, where the Kuu-Chekinsky open-pit mine was already operating, access roads were laid, and a comfortable workers’ settlement was built.
Detailed exploration of the Borly deposit was carried out by the Gapeevsky expedition in 1979 - 1981. Three coal horizons were identified with an average seam thickness of 8.8; 22.3 and 26.6 m and coal saturation, respectively, 25, 65 and 65%. The average stripping ratio is 2.0 m3/t. The maximum depth of the seams is 225 m. Refractory coals with an ash content of 39 to 47% are suitable for use only as energy fuel.
The balance coal reserves of the Borly deposit amounted to over 450 million tons, of which category A+B - 360 million tons.
According to the preliminary cutting carried out by the Karagandagiproshakht Institute, it is possible to build a coal mine with a capacity of 10 million tons per year at the deposit. The construction of its first stage, called the Molodezhny open-pit mine, with a capacity of 5 million tons per year, began at the end of 1980, simultaneously with the ongoing detailed exploration.
On February 4, 1980, excavator operator A.L. Kurin removed and loaded the first bucket of coal. This day is considered the beginning of work at the Borly exploration and production site of the Kuu-Chekinsky open pit. And already on April 1, 1980, on the basis of this site, the Molodezhny coal mine was formed as an independent enterprise, part of the Karagandaugol Production Association. G.Kh. Tsoi was appointed the first director of the Molodezhny mine, and I.L. Zinkovsky was appointed chief engineer. A lot of time has passed since those first days and months. But even today the pioneers of the mine continue to work here. This is the drilling rig operator I.V. Vasiliev, the driver of the BelAZ car I.F. Peters. The first engineering and technical workers of the site and open-pit mine were G.Kh. Tsoi - curator from the Karagandaugol Production Association, D.M. Omarov - deputy director for production, S.B. Urazalinov - head of the site.
Already in the very first year of 1980, 2 million tons of coal were mined. In addition to the Molodezhny open-pit mine itself, a residential village, a railway, the Borly station, an electrical substation, a coal warehouse, receiving bunkers, treatment facilities, etc. were built in a short time. The open-pit mine reached its design capacity in 1988, when 5,011.5 thousand were mined . tons The average monthly labor productivity of a mining worker is 730 tons. Stripping ratio – 2.34 m3/t. The ash content of mined coal is 45.1%.
To further maintain the capacity at the achieved level, in 1991, a project for opening and preparing the +330 m horizon was completed, which provided for the completion of the construction of the railway stripping complex. In the future, it is possible to expand the mine to 10 million tons per year.
Since the beginning of operation of the Borly deposit, more than 119 million tons of thermal coal have been mined here, while about 200 million cubic meters of overburden rock have been extracted and sent to dumps. The stripping ratio was 1.7.
Since July 1, 1997, the Molodezhny open-pit mine became part of the Borly State Open Company under the management of Kazakhmys Corporation JSC. Currently, the open-pit mine is a structural subdivision of the Borly coal department of the Kazakhmys Corporation LLP branch. With the arrival of a new investor, equipment renewal began. And it gave results. If in the first year 3.7 million tons of coal were produced, then in 2005 coal production amounted to 5.7 million tons. With the deepening of mining operations, the stripping ratio inevitably increases, and the volume of stripping operations has increased significantly.
Today, modern technology and equipment are used at the mine. To transport coal and overburden rock, quarry dump trucks SAT-777D made in the USA, as well as Belarusian ones - BelAZ-7555D, are used. and BelAZ-75131. A powerful DML drilling rig from the Canadian company Ingerson has already been received and assembled, which allows drilling to a depth of up to 50 meters. A driver with 25 years of experience, Pyotr Ivanovich Zhuk, was entrusted with mastering the new drilling rig. He, together with representatives of the Mining Salushins company, participated in the assembly of the drilling rig. The 2007 investment program also provides for the purchase of an eleven-cubic-meter BONN-16007 excavator (China) with a backhoe. A 40-ton SKAT truck crane based on KamAZ and 3 buses for transporting workers were also purchased. By the end of 2007, a powerful T-35 bulldozer, a loader, a KamAZ truck tractor, a crew vehicle, a fuel tanker and a charging machine will be supplied to the open-pit mine. The use of new technology makes it possible to increase the productivity of the working section from year to year. If in 1997 the average monthly labor productivity of a worker was 213.2 tons, then in 2006 it was 571 tons. Labor productivity increased 2.7 times.

Today, the team at the Molodezhny open-pit mine works steadily and highly productively. A team of 1,150 people, including social workers, will produce 7 million tons of coal, and the volume of stripping work will be 13 million cubic meters. Staff turnover is low. They work on a rotational basis every 5 days. Work shift – 11 hours. About 70 percent of the workers are local, from the Molodezhny village and surrounding villages, and 30 percent come from Karaganda and other remote places. The average salary is about 44 thousand, and excavator drivers and dump truck drivers receive 90 - 100 thousand tenge. The issue of increasing the average salary to 50 thousand tenge is being considered. Modern approaches to mining operations, technical re-equipment, a high level of production organization - all this creates the basis for the highly productive work of the open-pit miners, further increasing coal production to 8 million tons per year.
The main wealth of the Molodezhny open-pit mine, as in other enterprises, is people. Nikolai Petrovich Sushchik, an EKG-5 excavator operator, works at the Techcomplex site. His father, a participant in the Great Patriotic War, worked as a site manager at mine No. 20-bis in Karaganda, then as a mining foreman at the Fedorovsky open-pit mine, and since 1957 - in Kuu-Cheku. Petr Sushchik is one of the pioneers of the Kuu-Chekinsky open-pit mine. And his children became the first builders of the Molodezhny open-pit mine. His son Nikolai Petrovich Sushchik today loads coal into railway cars. He has been working at Molodezhny since May 1980, for 27 years now. Now he works together with his son Vitaly, an excavator operator since 1996. He is on one shift, and his son is on another. For 22 years, Nikolai Petrovich has been loading coal into cars every day, working on the same excavator. The work is dusty, but the old excavator is surprisingly sparkling clean. You can feel the love of father and son for this car. One can only admire the virtuoso work of Nikolai Petrovich. Not a single extra movement. He feels the car, and she feels it. He has a long life behind him, filled with hard work. He is a full holder of the Miner's Glory badge, and that says a lot. The Sushchik family is known in Molodezhny. His, now deceased, older brother Pyotr Petrovich Sushchik, was also an excavator operator, working since 1979, first in the Kuu-Chekinsky open-pit mine, and then in Borly. He is a full holder of the Miner's Glory badge. His two sons, Dmitry and Valery Sushchiki, have been working as excavator operators at the Molodezhny open-pit mine for many years. Such a wonderful Sushchikov dynasty works at the Molodezhny open-pit mine. There are a lot of good excavator workers here. These are Viktor Vasilyevich Skilov and Igor Aleksandrovich Kurin, 6th category excavator drivers, full holders of the “Miner’s Glory” badge, excavator drivers Vladimir Mikhailovich Zakharov, Alexander Oskarovich Lerkh, Anatoly Urenev, Vladislav Rigert, Bolat Rakhimov and others.
In the section we saw beautiful and powerful BelAZ-75131 dump trucks with a carrying capacity of 131 tons. The brigades of Sergei Sinelnikov and Nikolai Peters were the first to master these yellow-orange giant machines. In addition to the foremen, they include highly experienced drivers Vladimir Ataykin, Alexey Khaibulin, Victor Rasskazov, Alexey Bogatenko, Vasily Gan and Dmitry Shilov. We met the driver of the BelAZ-75131, Alexey Alekseevich Bogatenko. He has been working at this BelAZ for only 5 days. Before that, he worked for 9 years on a 40-ton dump truck. Alexey Alekseevich praised the new car: “Despite its large dimensions, it is very convenient, comfortable, and easy to drive.” It makes about 35 trips per shift, transporting about one hundred tons each time. Since 1993, driver Vladimir Sergeevich Ataykin has been working at the open-pit mine. He is a native of the village of Molodezhny. As they say, where you were born is where you come in handy. Previously, he worked on a 75-ton BelAZ, then on an American 90-ton KAT-777, and now on the most powerful vehicle, the BelAZ-75131. It invariably fulfills and exceeds planned targets for the transportation of goods, and has been awarded the “Miner’s Glory” badges of the 2nd and 3rd degrees. Since 1998, the crew of Sergei Sinelnikov has been working in the same composition. For the last year and a half they have been working on American Caterpillars. The Molodezhny mine is famous for its high-quality drivers. These are Sergei Ivanovich Tretyakov, Vladimir Nikolaevich Zhuravel, Ivan Demyanovich Elak, Nikolai Frantsevich Peters, Tolegen Baltashevich Kulbaev, Duysenbek Kablzhanovich Shalbarbaev and many others. A large team of motorists is headed by the head of the technological column of the mining and transport workshop, Timur Kudegaevich Panarin.
Known for their highly productive work are drilling rig operator Nikolai Alekseevich Vasiliev, bulldozer operators Baurzhan Nakishevich Lukpanov and Mikhail Alekseevich Barkalov, blaster Kalden Mukhtarov, instrumentation and control equipment adjusters Yuri Alekseevich Begeev and Nikolai Nikolaevich Ovdienko, mining equipment repairmen Boris Egorovich Lomaev, Semyon Mikhailovich Yesev, Viktor Alekseevich Shirokov, Baglanbek Nurmukhametov, electric mechanic for repairing mining equipment Anatoly Ivanovich Norenko, electric and gas welders Valery Viktorovich Emashev and Mikhail Mikhailovich Lubochkin, car repair mechanics Nikolay Pavlovich Strekach and Vladimir Alekseevich Morozov and many others.
The open-pit mine has a strong management team led by director Joseph Leontyevich Zinkovsky and chief engineer Mikhail Ivanovich Kolmentsev, who have been working here for more than twenty years. This team includes chief technologist Ivan Ivanovich Gladyshev. He graduated from the Karaganda Polytechnic Institute with a degree in open-pit mining of mineral deposits. I wrote my diploma project on the design of mining operations at the Borlinskoye coal deposit. After graduating from university, he worked as an engineer of the State Standard, a mining foreman at the excavation of capital mine workings of large cross-section in the Kirovsky ShSU in Karaganda, and since 1989 - at the Molodezhny open-pit mine. Here he worked as a mining site foreman, a safety engineer, and in recent years - chief technologist. He talks with enthusiasm about the renovation of mining equipment at the mine in recent years, about measures to improve the quality of control of mined coal, about drainage, the development of technology in connection with the deepening of mining, etc. He is also a passionate hunter and fisherman. “For hunters, fishermen, mushroom pickers and berry pickers, this is simply a paradise,” he asserts with conviction.
The chief power engineer, Viktor Yakovlevich Bychkov, is respected here not only as an excellent specialist, but also as a combat-trained participant in the war in Afghanistan. He has been working at the Molodezhny open-pit mine since 1986. For thirteen years he headed the energy-mechanical department, and since 2002 he has been the chief power engineer. He has military awards, and on the section his work is marked with the signs of “Miner Glory” of the 2nd and 3rd degrees.
The head of the Gorny section, Ivan Veniaminovich Rigert, graduated from the Tselinograd Institute of Civil Engineering. He has been working at the Molodezhny open-pit mine since 1983. He started as a mining foreman for drainage work and moved to the mountain section. Since 1989 – mining foreman, deputy. head of the section, acting section chief, section chief. Under his leadership, the site operates steadily, without disruptions, and annually increases coal production. He is an Honorary Worker of the Coal Industry of Kazakhstan. Awarded the "Miner's Glory" badge, 3rd degree.
One of the pioneers of the Molodezhny open-pit mine is the chief surveyor Nadezhda Aleksandrovna Shekhovtsova. She graduated from the Karaganda Mining College. Since 1972 she worked at the Kuu-Chekinsky open-pit mine, and since 1983 at the Molodezhny open-pit mine. For many years she worked as a local surveyor, and since 2001 - as a chief surveyor. In recent years, open-pit coal mining has increased, and stripping operations have increased even more. New technology has come to the aid of surveyors. Two Delta theodolites and a computer were purchased for them. It all starts with a mine plan. And the chief surveyor, Nadezhda Aleksandrovna Shekhovtsova, has to constantly find ways to ensure further development of the mine without a significant increase in the stripping ratio. She and the small team of the surveying department contribute to the operational achievements of the mine. Her professional work is highly valued by miners. She was awarded the "Miner's Glory" badge, 3rd degree.
The successful work of the mine's miners makes it possible to allocate considerable funds for social programs. The chairman of the trade union committee, Nurlan Kaydashevich Suleimenov, deals with these issues every day. He worked as a mining foreman for many years, deputy. head of the mining site, shift supervisor. And now he has been entrusted with a social sector. The mine administration provides the Molodezhny village with heat, water, and electricity. Mine workers pay only about half of actual costs for utilities. Dormitories, a canteen, a first-aid post, a sports complex with a swimming pool, a kindergarten, a utility plant that provides a wide range of services to the population of the Shakhtersky microdistrict of the Molodezhny village - all this is on the balance sheet of the coal mine. Employees of the Molodezhny open-pit mine are treated on preferential vouchers in sanatoriums in Minvody and Zheleznovodsk, and rest in the Shakhtar rest homes in the Karkaraly mountains, Ak-Bulak in Almaty and Luchezarny in southern Ukraine. The mine's miners cordially celebrate their professional holiday, Miner's Day, at the sports complex in the Molodezhny village. According to the collective agreement between the trade union organization and the administration, mine workers have many different benefits.
The team of miners at the Molodezhny open-pit mine looks confidently into the future. The guarantee of this is the large reserves of thermal coal, which is mined here using high-performance equipment using the cheapest open-pit method.