The Piaski coal deposit is a lignite deposit in the east of

Poland Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe. It is divided into 16 administrative provinces called voivodeships, covering an area of . Poland has a population of over 38 million and is the fifth-most populous ...

in Piaski, Lublin Voivodeship, 200 km east of the capital,

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. The Piaski lignite deposit has estimated reserves of 136.4 million tonnes of

coal Coal is a combustible black or brownish-black sedimentary rock, formed as rock strata called coal seams. Coal is mostly carbon with variable amounts of other elements, chiefly hydrogen, sulfur, oxygen, and nitrogen. Coal is formed when dea ...

and an overburden to coal ratio of 7.3:1. The deposit is undeveloped but was considered potentially profitable. In 2020, PAK KWB Konin, a subsidiary of the polish utility company ZE PAK, decided to not develop the Piaski lignite deposit.

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Coal in Poland Lublin Voivodeship {{Mine-stub