Rovinari Coal Mine

Rovinari Coal mine
Location
Location Rovinari
Commune Gorj County
Country Romania
Production
Products Coal
Production 8,000,000 tonnes
Financial year 2008
History
Opened 1978
Owner
Company National Company of Lignite Oltenia

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

The exploitation has four open pits Tismana I, Tismana II, Gârla - Rovinari Est and Pinoasa that produced 8 million tonnes of lignite in 2008.[1] The mine has around 3,000 workers and is endowed with 23 bucket-wheel excavators, 14 spreaders, three mixed machines and one deposits spreader.[1] The total proven recoverable reserves of the mine amount to 610 million tonnes of lignite.[1]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 "Rovinari Coal Field". National Company of Lignite Oltenia. 2009-02-24. Retrieved 2009-02-24.