Dębieńsko
We hold a 50-year mining licence for Debiensko, which is located in southern Poland, 40km from the Czech border.
Debiensko is our most advanced expansion project and holds 190 million tonnes of coking coal reserves, under the current licence, which covers the exploration of deeper seams, 1km underground. Our Polish subsidiary, NWR KARBONIA, completed an alternative development plan that explores the option of also developing the shallower thermal coal seams.
This new approach reduces the investment cost and development time to bring the mine on stream, compared with the original plan. We are in the process of applying for an amendment to the current 'Debiensko 1' licence to include further coal reserves related to the shallower seams, to those already included in the currently held licence.