Active Coal Mining Operations
The Company’s hard coal reserves are situated in eight mining areas in the Karviná and Ostrava regions of the Upper Silesian basin, covering a total area of approximately 120 square kilometres. The majority of OKD’s mines are located in the Karviná region and have a seam thickness ranging of between one and eight metres. The Paskov mine is located in the Ostrava region and has an average seam thickness of between 0.5 and 1.2 metres. There are four active OKD hard coal mines: Karviná, Darkov, Paskov and ČSM. Reserves in these active mines total 229 million tonnes. All the coal produced by OKD is of good quality, with the highest quality coal being produced from the Paskov mine.
Our four mines have 23 shafts extracting coal from depths ranging from 600 to 1,000 metres below the surface. All the mines extract coal from mutiple seams using the longwall mining method with shearers or ploughs in connection with mechanised shields or single hydraulic props to cut coal and to secure the excavated area.
Karviná Mine
Production | 4.9 million tonnes |
Reserves | 101 million tonnes |
Coal type | Semi-Hard coking/Hard coking/Thermal |
Brief History:
In 2008 the Lazy and ČSA mines were combined into one business unit named Karviná.
Darkov, ČSM, ČSA and Lazy are connected through underground tunnels and by railways on the surface.
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Darkov Mine
Production | 4.1 million tonnes |
Reserves | 47 million tonnes |
Coal type | Semi-Hard Coking/Thermal |
Brief History:
Mining in the area where the Darkov mine is located began in 1853 in the Gabriela mine. The Hohenegger and Austria mines began production in 1883 and 1907, respectively. These mines were merged in the 1950s. The Závod 2 site began operations in 1982.
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Paskov Mine
Production | 1.1 million tonnes |
Reserves | 27 million tonnes |
Coal type | Hard Coking |
Brief History:
Paskov, with its one active site in Staříč, is the only active mine in the Ostrava region. The original Paskov site was founded in 1961, began operations in 1965 and closed in 1999. The Staříč site was founded in 1963 and began operations in 1970. In 1994, the Paskov and Staříč sites were merged into Paskov.
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ČSM Mine
Production | 2.7 million tonnes |
Reserves | 53 million tonnes |
Coal type | Hard Coking |
Brief History:
The construction works for ČSM located in Karviná began in 1958 and operations began in 1968. In 2005, ČMD, which owned ČSM, was merged with OKD.
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Coking Plants
We operate two coking plants through our wholly owned subsidiary, OKK. The Jan Šverma and Svoboda facilities combined operate four coking batteries totalling 226 chambers.
In 2008 OKK produced 1.3 million tonnes of coke, largely from our own coking coal. Of that total, 0.4 million tonnes was foundry coke, 0.6 million tonnes was metallurgical coke (also known as blast-furnace coke) and the remainder were heating and technological types of coke for the chemical industry.
Jan Šverma
The Jan Šverma facility produces metallurgical coke via one top-charging coking battery with 72 cells per battery. Each cell has a capacity of 15 tonnes of coke per load with coking time of 18 to 22 hours.
Svoboda
The Svoboda facility uses the stamp charging process to produce foundry coke. The facility comprises three coking batteries - two of them are equipped with 50 cells per coking battery and one with 54 cells per battery. Capacity of the cell is 21 tonnes of coal yielding 16 tonnes of coke per load on average with coking time of approximately 32 hours.
Current information about contemporary coal production and reserves are available in the Investors Section.
OKK‘s company website: http://www.koksovny.cz/en/
