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]