Uricani Coal Mine Explained

Uricani Coal mine
Place:Uricani
State/Province:Hunedoara County
Country:Romania
Owner:National Hard Coal Company
Products:Coal
Financial Year:2008
Amount:543,000 tonnes
Opening Year:1980
Closing Year:2018

Uricani Coal Mine is an underground mining operation, one of the largest in Romania located in Uricani, one of six cities in the Jiu Valley region of Hunedoara County.[1] The legal entity managing the Uricani mine is the National Hard Coal Company which was set up in 1998.[1] The mine has reserves of 39.3 million tonnes of coal. After several fatal accidents[2] [3] and Romania's obligation regarding the reduction of the arrears of the CNH,[4] the mine has been in the process of shutting down its operation since 2009.[5] [6]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: CNH Petrosani. 2004. ccir.ro. September 26, 2010. https://web.archive.org/web/20110816160524/http://forumworks.ccir.ro/ENERGIA/cnh_petrosani.doc. August 16, 2011. dead. mdy-all.
  2. News: Mine Blast Fatal to 41. 26 February 1965. Youngstown Vindicator. Youngstown, Ohio. 76.
  3. Web site: Three miners injured, one dead in mine explosion in Romania. Romania Insider. 30 October 2017 . en. 2019-09-09.
  4. Web site: 283,4 milioane lei pentru închiderea minelor de cărbune necompetitive. FOCUS-ENERGETIC.RO. Focus Energetic. 28 February 2017 . 2019-09-09.
  5. Book: Public sector shock : the impact of policy retrenchment in Europe. Vaughan-Whitehead, Daniel . 2013 . Edward Elgar Publishing . 9789221265696 . Cheltenham. 858948580.
  6. Web site: Relics of Romania's communist industrial past. www.aljazeera.com. 2019-09-09.