Bełchatów Coal Mine
| Location | |
|---|---|
Bełchatów coal mine Location in Poland | |
| Location | Bełchatów |
| town | Łódź Voivodeship |
| Country | Poland |
| Coordinates | 51°14′01″N 019°18′46″E / 51.23361°N 19.31278°E |
| Production | |
| Products | Coal |
| Production | 40,000,000+ t/year[1] |
| History | |
| Opened | 1955 |
| Owner | |
| Company | Kopalnia Wegla Brunatnego Bełchatów |
The Bełchatów coal mine (Polish: Kopalnia Węgla Brunatnego „Bełchatów”) is a large open-pit mine in the centre of Poland in Bełchatów, Łódź Voivodeship, 150 km west of the capital, Warsaw. Bełchatów represents one of the largest coal reserves in Poland having estimated reserves of 1,930 million tonnes of lignite coal.[2] In 2015, the mine produced 42.1 million tonnes of lignite (66.7% of Poland's total lignite production)[1] to feed Bełchatów Power Station.
This mine is also a palaeontological site, the age of which is Miocene. Fossil plants and the fragment of a crocodile have been found there.[3][4]
References
- ^ a b "Poland". Euracoal. Euracoal. Retrieved 21 November 2017.
- ^ "References" (PDF). poltegor.pl. 2010. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-03-13. Retrieved 2010-09-28.
- ^ Górka, M.; Březina, J.; Chroust, M.; Kowalski, R.; López-Torres, S.; Tałanda, M. (2025). "Crocodylian remains from the Miocene of the Fore-Carpathian Basin and its foreland—including the world's northernmost Neogene crocodylian" (PDF). Acta Palaeontologica Polonica. p. 225–251.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ Worobiec, Grzegorz (2003). "New fossil floras from Neogene deposits in the Bełchatów Lignite Mine". Acta Palaeobotanica (Suppl. 3): 3–133.
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