Berbești Coal Mine Explained

Berbești Coal mine
Place:Berbești
Subdivision Type:County
State/Province:Vâlcea County
Country:Romania
Owner:National Company of Lignite Oltenia
Products:Coal
Financial Year:2008
Amount:2,500,000 tonnes
Opening Year:1980

Berbești Coal Mine is an open-pit mining exploitation, one of the largest in Romania located in Berbești, Vâlcea County.[1] The legal entity managing the Berbești mine is the National Company of Lignite Oltenia which was set up in 1997.[1]

The exploitation has four open pits Seciuri, Olteț, Berbești-Vest, Panga that produced 2.5 million tonnes of lignite in 2008.[1] The mine has around 1,800 workers and is endowed with 13 bucket-wheel excavators, seven spreaders, one mixed machine and five deposits spreader.[1] The total proven recoverable reserves of the mine amount to 67 million tonnes of lignite.[1]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Berbeşti Coal Field. 2009-02-24. National Company of Lignite Oltenia. 2009-02-24. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20080610165936/http://www.cnlo.ro/index.html. 2008-06-10.