“…Irrespective of the fact that Russia takes the third place in the world in coking coal production (more than 80.0 million tons per annum) after China and Australia, coke chemical companies suffer from a shortage of coals of particularly valuable grades: coking (K), coking lean (KO), and lean caking coal (OS). − It should be noted that the demand for coking coals of these grades will persist from a long-term perspective, as the main consumer of coal coke, the blast-furnace iron-making, is still the main cast-iron and steel making process in the world. − For example, the main consumers of the coal coke produced in Kuznetsk, Pechorsk, and Yuzhno-Yakutsk fields in the Russian market are the following large metallurgical and coke chemical companies: Altay Coke Chemical Plant, West-Siberian Metal Plant, Kemerovo Coke Chemical Plant, Novolipetsk Steel Plant, Chelyabinsk Metallurgical Plant, and others . The deficit of K, KO, and OS coals, as well as coking fat (KZh) and fat coals (Zh), is compensated for by adding into the charge the other coal grades whose reserves are much more abundant: gas coal (G), gas fat lean coal (GZhO), sinter low-caking low-metamorphized coal (KSN), sinter low-caking coal (KS), long flame coal (DG), lean caking coal (TS), and low-caking coal (SS) that are second to coking coals in quality and degrade the charge, which finally affects the coke quality. , …”