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]