Lupeni Coal Mine

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Lupeni Coal mine
Location
Location Lupeni
Commune Hunedoara County
Country Romania
Production
Products Coal
Production765,000 tonnes
Financial year2008
History
Opened1980
Owner
Company National Hard Coal Company

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. [1] The legal entity managing the Lupeni mine is the National Hard Coal Company which was set up in 1998. [1] The mine has reserves of 65 million tonnes of coal.

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  1. 1 2 "Strategie Lupeni" (PDF). lupeni.ro. 2007. Retrieved 2013-06-20.