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The Donets Basin is a major coal-mining district in eastern Ukraine and adjacent portions of Russia. It comprises the Donbas Foldbelt, which is the uplifted and compressionally deformed part of the Pripyat–Dniepr–Donets (PDD) Basin, and the significantly less deformed Western Donbas region. The PDD Basin is a Late Devonian rift structure located within the East European Craton. Thick coal-measures formed during the post-rift stage of the basin in Serpukhovian to Moscovian times, when about 130 seams, each with a thickness over 0.45m, have been deposited. Early Serpukhovian coal accumulated in a relatively narrow shore-zone. It is rich in inertinite and liptinite and very low in ash. Bashkirian and Moscovian coal have a significantly wider lateral extension and are generally rich in vitrinite. Bashkirian and Moscovian coal seams usually have high ash yields (12–18%) and high sulfur contents (2.5–3.5%), but …