The coal industry
The main industry is the production of coal and lignite. Ukraine's coal industry is mainly represented by enterprises of Donetsk, Lviv-Volyn coal and lignite Dnipro basin. The main base of coal in Ukraine is still Donbass. Coal is mined in the Donetsk region.
At the beginning of 2012 in Ukraine there are 20 coal mining companies and 145 mines. Coal production in Ukraine in 2011 in Europe (excluding Russia) is second only to that of Poland -61,756,000 (in Poland - 76.3 million tons). Throughput of clean coal in 2011 is about 75.8 million tons of coal (including 12.7 million tons - import clean coal).
