Uricani Coal Mine
| Location | |
|---|---|
| Location | Uricani |
| Hunedoara County | |
| Country | Romania |
| Production | |
| Products | Coal |
| Production | 543,000 tonnes |
| Financial year | 2008 |
| History | |
| Opened | 1980 |
| Closed | 2018 |
| Owner | |
| Company | National Hard Coal Company |
Uricani Coal Mine is an underground mining operation, one of the largest in Romania located in Uricani, one of six cities in the Jiu Valley region of Hunedoara County.[1] The legal entity managing the Uricani mine is the National Hard Coal Company which was set up in 1998.[1] The mine has reserves of 39.3 million tonnes of coal. After several fatal accidents[2][3] and Romania's obligation regarding the reduction of the arrears of the CNH,[4] the mine has been in the process of shutting down its operation since 2009.[5][6]
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- ^ a b "CNH Petrosani". ccir.ro. 2004. Archived from the original on August 16, 2011. Retrieved September 26, 2010.
- ^ "Mine Blast Fatal to 41". Youngstown Vindicator. Vol. 76. Youngstown, Ohio. 26 February 1965.
- ^ "Three miners injured, one dead in mine explosion in Romania". Romania Insider. 30 October 2017. Retrieved 2019-09-09.
- ^ FOCUS-ENERGETIC.RO (28 February 2017). "283,4 milioane lei pentru închiderea minelor de cărbune necompetitive". Focus Energetic. Retrieved 2019-09-09.
- ^ Public sector shock : the impact of policy retrenchment in Europe. Vaughan-Whitehead, Daniel,, Edward Elgar Publishing. ([International Labour Organization edition] ed.). Cheltenham. ISBN 9789221265696. OCLC 858948580.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link) - ^ "Relics of Romania's communist industrial past". www.aljazeera.com. Retrieved 2019-09-09.
