Uricani Coal Mine

Uricani Coal mine
Location
LocationUricani
Hunedoara County
CountryRomania
Production
ProductsCoal
Production543,000 tonnes
Financial year2008
History
Opened1980
Closed2018
Owner
CompanyNational Hard Coal Company

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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References

  1. ^ a b "CNH Petrosani". ccir.ro. 2004. Archived from the original on August 16, 2011. Retrieved September 26, 2010.
  2. ^ "Mine Blast Fatal to 41". Youngstown Vindicator. Vol. 76. Youngstown, Ohio. 26 February 1965.
  3. ^ "Three miners injured, one dead in mine explosion in Romania". Romania Insider. 30 October 2017. Retrieved 2019-09-09.
  4. ^ FOCUS-ENERGETIC.RO (28 February 2017). "283,4 milioane lei pentru închiderea minelor de cărbune necompetitive". Focus Energetic. Retrieved 2019-09-09.
  5. ^ Vaughan-Whitehead, Daniel, ed. (2013). Public sector shock : the impact of policy retrenchment in Europe. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing. ISBN 9789221265696. OCLC 858948580.
  6. ^ "Relics of Romania's communist industrial past". www.aljazeera.com. Retrieved 2019-09-09.