Bozovici Coal Mine is an

underground mining Mining is the extraction of valuable minerals or other geological materials from the Earth, usually from an ore body, lode, vein, seam, reef, or placer deposit. The exploitation of these deposits for raw material is based on the economic via ...

exploitation, one of the largest in

Romania Romania ( ; ro, România ) is a country located at the crossroads of Central Europe, Central, Eastern Europe, Eastern, and Southeast Europe, Southeastern Europe. It borders Bulgaria to the south, Ukraine to the north, Hungary to the west, S ...

located in

Bozovici Bozovici ( hu, Bozovics; german: Bosowitsch; cs, Božoviče) is a commune in Caraș-Severin County, western Romania with a population of 2,924 people. It is composed of four villages: Bozovici, Poneasca (''Ponyászkatelep''), Prilipeț (''Prilipec ...

in the south-western part of

Caraș-Severin County Caraș-Severin () is a county ( județ) of Romania on the border with Serbia. The majority of its territory lies within the historical region of Banat, with a few northeastern villages considered part of Transylvania. The county seat is Reșița ...

. The legal entity managing the Bozovici mine is the

National Hard Coal Company The National Hard Coal Company ( ro, Compania Naționala a Huilei) was set up as a commercial society by the Government of Romania in 1998. The main headquarters of the company is placed in Petroșani, the principal city in the coal mining region ...

which was set up in 1998. The mine has reserves of 30 million tonnes of coal.

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{{coord missing, Caraș-Severin County Coal mines in Romania Buildings and structures in Caraș-Severin County

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