Roșia – Peșteana Coal Mine
| Location | |
|---|---|
| Location | Rovinari |
| Commune | Gorj County |
| Country | Romania |
| Production | |
| Products | Coal |
| Production | 7,200,000 tonnes |
| Financial year | 2008 |
| History | |
| Opened | 1973 |
| Owner | |
| Company | National Company of Lignite Oltenia |
Roșia – Peșteana Coal Mine is an open-pit mining exploitation, one of the largest in Romania located in Rovinari, Gorj County.[1] The legal entity managing the Roșia - Peșteana mine is the National Company of Lignite Oltenia which was set up in 1997.[1]
The exploitation has three open pits Roșia, Peșteana Nord, Peșteana Sud-Urdar that produced 7.2 million tonnes of lignite in 2008.[1] The mine has around 2,900 workers and is endowed with 19 bucket-wheel excavators, 12 spreaders, one mixed machine and three deposits spreader.[1] The total proven recoverable reserves of the mine amount to 112 million tonnes of lignite.[1]
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