The Upper Silesian Coal Basin (''USCB''; , ) is a

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, in

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and the

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Encyclopedia The Basin also contains a number of other minable resources, such as methane, cadmium, lead, silver and zinc. Coal depth is approximately 1,000 meters, and contains about 70 billion tons, with good extraction potential. Industrial areas within the Upper Silesian Coal Basin include the following: *

Upper Silesian Industrial Region The Upper Silesian Industrial Region (, , Polish abbreviation: ''GOP'' ; ) is a large industrial region in Poland.

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Rybnik Coal Area The Rybnik Coal Area (, ''ROW'') is an industrial region in southern Poland."''Rybnicki Okręg W� ...

() * () The Upper Silesian Coal Basin lies in a highland, between the upper

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and the upper

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rivers. It is located mainly in the

Silesian Voivodeship Silesian Voivodeship ( ) is an administrative province in southern Poland. With over 4.2 million residents and an area of 12,300 square kilometers, it is the second-most populous, and the most-densely populated and most-urbanized region of Poland ...

in Poland as well as extending into the

Moravian-Silesian Region The Moravian-Silesian Region () is one of the 14 administrative regions of the Czech Republic. Before May 2001, it was called the Ostrava Region (). The region is located in the north-eastern part of its historical region of Moravia and in most ...

in the Czech Republic. The Upper Silesian Coal Basin includes the

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and has a population of 5,294,000 (with 4,311,000 in Poland and 983,000 in the Czech Republic).

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Area: 5,400 km² (in Poland - 4,500 km², in Czech Republic - 900 km²) or 5,600 km².

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"''Historia badań i stan rozpoznania hydrogeologicznego Górnośląskiego Zagłębia Węglowego''" / "''History and State of Hydrological Investigations of the Upper Silesian Coal Basin''"
- Andrzej Różkowski,

University of Silesia The University of Silesia in Katowice () is an autonomous state-run university in Katowice, Silesia Province, Poland. The university offers higher education and research facilities. It offers undergraduate, masters, and PhD degree programs, ...

Katowice Katowice (, ) is the capital city of the Silesian Voivodeship in southern Poland and the central city of the Katowice urban area. As of 2021, Katowice has an official population of 286,960, and a resident population estimate of around 315,000. K ...

2008, * "''Geologia i bogactwa mineralne Górnego Śląska i obszarów przyległych''" - Wiesław Gabzdyl & Marian Gorol,

Silesian University of Technology The Silesian University of Technology (Polish language, Polish name: Politechnika Śląska; ) is a university located in the Polish province of Silesia, with most of its facilities in the city of Gliwice. It was founded in 1945 by Polish profes ...

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