Jilț Coal Mine Explained

Jilț Coal mine
Place:Mătăsari
Subdivision Type:Commune
State/Province:Gorj County
Country:Romania
Owner:National Company of Lignite Oltenia
Products:Coal
Financial Year:2008
Amount:7,000,000 tonnes
Opening Year:1984

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

The exploitation has two open pits Jilț Sud, Jilț Nord that produced 7 million tonnes of lignite in 2008.[1] The mine has around 2,400 workers and is endowed with 15 bucket-wheel excavators, seven spreaders, two mixed machines and one deposit spreader.[1] The total proven recoverable reserves of the mine amount to 285.8 million tonnes of lignite.[1]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Jilţ 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 .