The Russian United Industrial Corporation (OPK) has announced its plans to raise production at the Elegesta coking coal deposit, located in Russia's Tyva Republic, up to approximately three million metric tons of coking coal in 2010. Furthermore, by 2014 the company plans to increase the deposit output to its designed production capacity of 13.5 million metric tons of coking coal, thus becoming the largest coking coal producer in Russia and the third largest coking coal producer in the world.
In 2008, OPK plans to achieve an output of 775,000 metric tons at its Elegesta coking coal deposit.