Husnicioara Coal Mine
Location | |
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Location | Husnicioara |
Commune | Mehedinţi County |
Country | Romania |
Production | |
Products | Coal |
Production | 3,100,000 tonnes |
Financial year | 2008 |
History | |
Opened | 1980 |
Owner | |
Company | National Company of Lignite Oltenia |
Husnicioara Coal Mine is an open-pit mining exploitation, one of the largest in Romania located in Husnicioara, Mehedinţi County.[1] The legal entity managing the Husnicioara mine is the National Company of Lignite Oltenia which was set up in 1997.[1]
The exploitation has two open pits Husnicioara - Vest, Zegujani that produced 3.1 million tonnes of lignite in 2008.[1] The mine has around 700 workers and is endowed with five bucket-wheel excavators, three spreaders, one mixed machine and four deposits spreader.[1] The total proven recoverable reserves of the mine amount to 67 million tonnes of lignite.[1]