Gaworzyce mine | |
Place: | Gaworzyce |
Subdivision Type: | town |
State/Province: | Polkowice County |
Country: | Poland |
Owner: | KGHM Polska Miedź |
Products: | Copper |
Opening Year: | 2004 |
The Gaworzyce mine is a large mine in the west of Poland in Gaworzyce, Polkowice County, 370 km south-west of the capital, Warsaw. Gaworzyce represents one of the largest copper and silver reserve in Poland having estimated reserves of 44.8 million tonnes of ore grading 3.05% copper and 44 g/tonnes silver.[1] The annual ore production is around 1 million tonnes from which 30,500 tonnes of copper and 44 tonnes of silver are extracted.