The Zofiówka coal mine is a large mine in the south of
Poland
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in
Jastrzębie-Zdrój
Jastrzębie-Zdrój (, ) is a city in the Silesian Voivodeship in southern Poland with 86,632 inhabitants (2021). Its name comes from the Polish words ''jastrząb'' ("hawk") and ''zdrój'' ("spa" or "spring").
From 1861 until the 20th century, it w ...
,
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 ...
, 307 km south-west of the capital,
Warsaw
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. Zofiówka represents one of the largest
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 Chemical element, elements, chiefly hydrogen, sulfur, oxygen, and nitrogen.
Coal i ...
reserve in
Poland
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having estimated reserves of 87 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 Chemical element, elements, chiefly hydrogen, sulfur, oxygen, and nitrogen.
Coal i ...
.
The annual coal production is around 3.7 million tonnes.
Accidents
* 5 miners died in 5 May 2018 due to
Rockburst with seismic
bump
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* ''BUMP'' (comics), 2007-08 limited edition comic book series
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with 3,4 magnitude.
* 10 miners died in 23 April 2022 due to
Rockburst with
outburst of methane gas.
References
External links
Official site
Coal mines in Poland
Buildings and structures in Jastrzębie-Zdrój
Coal mines in Silesian Voivodeship
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