Aleksinački Rudnik is a mining town in Serbia located in the municipality of Aleksinac, in the Nišava District.
Coal mining regions are significant resource extraction industries in many parts of the world. They provide a large amount of the fossil fuel energy in the world economy.
The 1965 Kakanj mine disaster was a mining accident on 7 June 1965 at a Kakanj coal mine in Kakanj, SR Bosnia and Herzegovina, SFR Yugoslavia.
Mining in the United Kingdom produces a wide variety of fossil fuels, metals, and industrial minerals due to its complex geology. In 2013, there were over 2,000 active mines, quarries, and offshore drilling sites on the continental land mass of the United Kingdom producing £34bn of minerals and employing 36,000 people.
Lupeni Coal Mine is an underground mining exploitation, one of the largest in Romania located in Lupeni, one of six cities in the Jiu Valley region of Hunedoara County. The legal entity managing the Lupeni mine is the National Hard Coal Company which was set up in 1998. The mine has reserves of 65 million tonnes of coal.
Coal mining has historically been an important industry in Ukraine. Coal mining in Ukraine is often associated with coal-rich Donets basin. However this is not the only coal mining region, other being Lviv-Volhynian basin and Dnieper brown coal mining basin. The Donets basin located in the eastern Ukraine is the most developed and much bigger coal mining region in the country.
Anina Coal Mine is an underground mine that is now closed. It was one of the largest mines in Romania. It is located in South-Western Romania, in Anina, Caraș-Severin County in the historical Banat region. The mine still has large reserves of anthracite, lignite, brown coal and oil shale amounting to over 1.3 billion tonnes. It was owned by Miniera Banat a state owned company that specialised in the management of coal mines in the Banat region. The mine opened in 1790 making it the longest running mine in Romania until its closure in 2006. Its galleries are hundreds of kilometers in length and reach a depth of 1,200 metres (3,900 ft) making it the deepest mine in Romania and one of the deepest in Europe. The mine supplied oil shale to the nearby Crivina Power Station, a 990 MW thermal power station, the first oil shale power station in Romania, that had to be supplied with around 4 million tonnes of oil shale per year.
The Zofiówka coal mine is a large mine in the south of Poland in Jastrzębie-Zdrój, Silesian Voivodeship, 307 km south-west of the capital, Warsaw. Zofiówka represents one of the largest coal reserve in Poland having estimated reserves of 87 million tonnes of coal. The annual coal production is around 3.7 million tonnes.
The Janina coal mine is a large mine in the south of Poland in Libiąż, Lesser Poland Voivodeship, 350 km south-west of the capital, Warsaw. The mine has been erected by Compagnie Galicienne de Mines, a French mining company, in 1907. Between 1921 and 1939 the Janina mine was under management of its Polish chief executive, Zygmunt Szczotkowski. During World War II it was repurposed into one of the German Nazi concentration camps. After the war the Janina mine was nationalizated, as all enterprises with over 50 employees had been at that time.
The Dęby Szlacheckie coal mine is a large mine in the north of Poland in Dęby Szlacheckie, Greater Poland Voivodeship, 130 km north-west of the capital, Warsaw. Dęby Szlacheckie represents one of the largest coal reserves in Poland having estimated reserves of 92 million tonnes of coal. Annual coal production is around 3.3 million tonnes.
The Jóźwin coal mine is a large mine in the west of Poland in Jóźwin, Greater Poland Voivodeship, 150 km west of the capital, Warsaw. Jóźwin represents one of the largest coal reserve in Poland having estimated reserves of 96.3 million tonnes of coal. The annual coal production is around 3.3 million tonnes.
The Stari Trg mine is one of the largest lead and zinc mines in Kosovo. The mine is located in Mitrovicë. The mine has reserves amounting to 0.432 million tonnes of ore grading 5.1% lead, 2.21% zinc and 80.5gr/t silver thus resulting 22,000 tonnes of lead, 9,600 tonnes of zinc and 35 tonnes of silver. The 1989 Kosovo miners' strike took place and ended in the mine, and spread to the entire Kosovo as a general strike. In order to stop the strike, turning into an open unrest, the Yugoslav government decided to impose martial law in the region.
The Dobropilska coal mine is in the south-east of Ukraine in Dobropillia, Donetsk Oblast. Dobropilska represents one of the largest coal reserves in Ukraine, having estimated reserves of 58.6 million tonnes of coal. The annual coal production is around 1.2 million tonnes.
The Komsomolets of Donbas coal mine is a large coal mine located in the south-east of Ukraine in Donetsk Oblast. Komsomolets of Donbas represents one of the largest coal reserves in Ukraine having estimated reserves of 137.5 million tonnes. The annual coal production is around 2.12 million tonnes.
The Krasnolymanska coal mine is a large coal mine located in the south-east of Ukraine in Donetsk Oblast. Krasnolymanska represents one of the largest coal reserves in Ukraine having estimated reserves of 85.1 million tonnes. The annual coal production is around 3.56 million tonnes.
Korba Coalfield is located in Korba district in the Indian state of Chhattisgarh in the basin of the Hasdeo River, a tributary of the Mahanadi.
Lodna Area is one of the 12 operational areas of BCCL located in Dhanbad Sadar subdivision of Dhanbad district in the state of Jharkhand, India.
The Kreka Coal Mine is a coal mine located in the Tuzla Canton. The mine has coal reserves amounting to 1.12 billion tonnes of lignite, one of the largest coal reserves in Europe and the world. The mine has an annual production capacity of 2.95 million tonnes of coal.
The Đurđević Coal Mine is a coal mine located in the Tuzla Canton in the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina. The mine has coal reserves amounting to 75 million tonnes of lignite, one of the largest coal reserves in Europe and the world. The mine has an annual production capacity of 0.2 million tonnes of coal.
The Stanari Coal Mine is an open-pit coal mine located in the municipality Doboj, Republika Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina. The mine has coal reserves amounting to 148.8 million tonnes of lignite, one of the largest coal reserves in Europe and the world. The mine has an annual production capacity of 0.5 million tonnes of coal.
