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Jiří Coal Mine (Lom Jiří) is an operating coal mine in Chodov, Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic.
Location
Table 1: Project-level location details
| Mine Name | Location | Coordinates (WGS 84) |
|---|---|---|
| Jiří Coal Mine | Chodov, Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic | 50.2161, 12.6836 (exact) |
The map below shows the exact location of the coal mine:
Project Details
Table 2: Project status
| Status | Status Detail | Opening Year | Closing Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating[1] | – | 1981[1] | 2032 (planned)[2] |
Table 3: Operation details
| Capacity (Mtpa) | Production (Mtpa) | Year of Production | Mine Type | Mining Method | Mine Size (km2) | Mine Depth (m) | Workforce Size |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| – | 3.8[3] | 2022[3] | Surface | Open Pit[2] | 12.5[2] | 50* | 436[2] |
Table 4: Coal resources and destination
| Total Reserves (Mt) | Year of Total Reserves Recorded | Total Resources (Mt) | Coalfield | Coal Type | Coal Grade | Primary Consumer/ Destination |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 120 | – | – | Sokolov Basin | Lignite[2] | Thermal | Tisova power station; Vresova TPS power station |
Table 5: Ownership and parent company
| Owner | Parent Company | Headquarters |
|---|---|---|
| Sokolovská Uhelná AS | Sokolovská Uhelná AS | Czech Republic |
Note: The above section was automatically generated and is based on data from the GEM April 2024 Global Coal Mine Tracker dataset.
Background
The Jiří coal mine is a surface mine in the Alberov mining region near Chodov, Czech Republic.[4]
The Jiří coal mine is owned and operated by Sokolovská Uhelná. The company used be owned by private individuals Jaroslav Rokos and František Štěpánek, who died in 2020. Rokos then sold his stake to the company in 2022.[5] The family entrusted the management of Štěpánek's property to lawyer Pavel Tomek.[6] Pavel Tomek is now the administrator of the trust fund of František Štěpánek's heirs. It is understood that the trust fund is the sole owner of Sokolovská Uhelná.
Soholovska Uhelna also owns power plants Vresova TPS power station (retired in 2020) and Tisova power station.
According to the company's website, about 50 percent of coal goes to domestic and foreign customers. The other half is used within its own thermal capacities.[7]
Global Data reported that production at the Jiří mine reached 6.3 million tonnes in 2021.[8] However another source referred to the figure of 3.2 million tonnes in 2021, citing decrease in volumes due to business plan reduction after 2020.[9] In 2020 production was 4.7 million tonnes.[5] The company's website (as of February 2023 and November 2023) also referred to average production of 3 million tonnes.[7] In 2022, production reached 3.8 million tonnes.[10]
Planned Mine Closure
Sokolovska Uhelna was preparing to phase out coal prior to the start of the war on Ukraine. "The smallest of the domestic mining companies, Sokolovská Uhelná, started with coal attenuation last year (2021). It wanted to end mining between 2025 and 2030, the owners started the transformation of the group into a new "Sokolovská non-coal". The mining sites were disrupted, the service and maintenance workers were transferred by the company to the newly founded "non-coal" group. The energy crisis and the war in Ukraine changed the plans."[11] "The once 6-million-tonne extraction was to drop to 2.5 million tonnes per year by 2023. Instead, the decision was made in March 2022 to put the decommissioned equipment to work and to mine 3.5 to 3.6 million tons of coal per year in 2023 and 2024".[11][12]
In May 2023, it was reported that the mining is expected to go on until 2032. The mine has a technological limitation to mine between 2.5 and 3.5 million tonnes. [13]
- Owner: Sokolovska Uhelna AS[4]
- Parent: Sokolovska Uhelna AS
- Location: Chodov, Czech Republic
- GPS coordinates: 50.2161, 12.6836 (exact)
- Mine status: Operating
- Production: 6.8 million tonnes (2019)[4]; 3.2 million tonnes (2021)[9][10], 3.8 million tonnes (2022)[10]
- Mineable reserves: 120 million tonnes
- Coal type: Lignite (Thermal)
- Mine type: Surface
- Start Year:
Articles and Resources
Additional data
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References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 https://web.archive.org/web/20240123180701/https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lom_Ji%25C5%2599%25C3%25AD. Archived from the original on 23 January 2024.
{{cite web}}: Missing or empty|title=(help) - ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 https://web.archive.org/web/20240124192037/https://www.ceskenoviny.cz/zpravy/2367589. Archived from the original on 24 January 2024.
{{cite web}}: Missing or empty|title=(help) - ↑ 3.0 3.1 https://www.ceskenoviny.cz/zpravy/2392117.
{{cite web}}: Missing or empty|title=(help) - ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Czech Republic, Euracoal, accessed August 2020
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 "End of an era. Billionaire Jaroslav Rokos quits Sokolovská uhelná (Translated)". forbez.cz. May 2022.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ↑ "František Štěpánek (entrepreneur)". Wikipedia. Retrieved February 2023.
{{cite web}}: Check date values in:|access-date=(help)CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ↑ 7.0 7.1 "Stručný profil". https://www.suas.cz/. Retrieved February 2023.
{{cite web}}: Check date values in:|access-date=(help); External link in|website= - ↑ Czech Republic: Five Largest Mines in 2021, Global Data, accessed December 2021
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 "Sokolovská uhelná increased profit. And because of the crisis, he is reopening the written-off part of the mine (Translated)". https://forbes.cz. June 2022.
{{cite web}}: External link in|website= - ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 "Skupina Sokolovská uhelná loni vytvořila rekordní zisk 2,3 miliardy Kč". www.ceskenoviny.cz. July 2023.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ↑ 11.0 11.1 "The crisis brings coal back into play. They are hiring miners in Sokolovska and increasing mining". https://www.seznamzpravy.cz. July 2022.
{{cite web}}: External link in|website= - ↑ "Instead of slowing down, coal mining is expanding. The excavator in Sokolovsk is already where it should have been in five years (Translated)". https://ct24.ceskatelevize.cz/. July 2022.
{{cite web}}: External link in|website= - ↑ "Sokolovská uhelná chce ve svém největším lomu Jiří těžit do roku 2032". www.ceskenoviny.cz. May 2023.
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