The Piaski coal deposit is a lignite deposit in the east of
Poland
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in
Piaski,
Lublin Voivodeship, 200 km east of the capital,
Warsaw
Warsaw ( pl, Warszawa, ), officially the Capital City of Warsaw,, abbreviation: ''m.st. Warszawa'' is the capital and largest city of Poland. The metropolis stands on the River Vistula in east-central Poland, and its population is officia ...
. 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.
References
External links
Official site
Coal in Poland
Lublin Voivodeship
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