Husnicioara Coal Mine Explained

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]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Husnicioara, Comuna Husnicioara, Judeţul Mehedinţi, Romania . mindat . 3 November 2023.
  2. Web site: Husnicioara 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 .