Husnicioara Coal mine | |
Pushpin Map: | Romania |
Coordinates: | [1] |
Place: | Husnicioara |
Subdivision Type: | Commune |
State/Province: | Mehedinți County |
Country: | Romania |
Owner: | National Company of Lignite Oltenia |
Products: | Coal |
Financial Year: | 2008 |
Amount: | 3,100,000 tonnes |
Opening Year: | 1980 |
Husnicioara Coal Mine is an open-pit mining exploitation, one of the largest in Romania located in Husnicioara, Mehedinți County.[2] The legal entity managing the Husnicioara mine is the National Company of Lignite Oltenia which was set up in 1997.[2]
The exploitation has two open pits Husnicioara - Vest, Zegujani that produced 3.1 million tonnes of lignite in 2008.[2] The mine has around 700 workers and is endowed with five bucket-wheel excavators, three spreaders, one mixed machine and four deposits spreader.[2] The total proven recoverable reserves of the mine amount to 67 million tonnes of lignite.[2]