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]