Closer to the return of coal mines in Lower Silesia

In July 2013, Balamara obtained the exclusive rights to a coking coal project in south-west Poland, carried out by Coal Holding. The project involves the construction of a new mining plant in the region, including unexploited deposits of the former Nowa Ruda underground mine, which has produced several million tons of high quality coking coal per year on several decades.

The deposit is located near the border between Poland and the Czech Republic, in the central part of the Sudetenland and belongs to the Lower Silesian coal basin. The Nowa Ruda project area covers an area of ​​about 26 square kilometers and consists of two concession areas, covering two areas of Pola Piast, the Nowa Ruda- Wacław deposit to the north and Lech to the south. The two regions are considered separate deposits and are separated by a large size. The thickness of the joints in the project reaches up to 2.75 m in the Wacław field and up to 7.0 m in the Lech field. In the vicinity of the Nowa Ruda project area there is a large industrial and transport infrastructure, min. railway line, perfectly developed road network and water and electricity lines

The size of the coal deposit in the Nowa Ruda region is estimated at 107 million tonnes. According to the investor, there is more in the reality anthracite. For now, coal mining from 18 deposits of a thickness of 0.6 to 2 m is taken into account – we read in "Gazeta Wrocławska"

The coal mining in the Lower Silesian coal basin dates back to the fifteenth century, making it one of the oldest coal mines in Poland and the average annual extraction before 1945 it stood at 0.25-0.5 million tons. After 1945, production increased significantly and reached a maximum value of 1.0 to 1.2 million tonnes between 1980 and 1995.

During the last two decades before the closure of the mine in 1995, the KWK Nowa Ruda mine extracts annually about 1 million tons of coking coal and more than 90 percent. total production was sold to local coking plants, and the largest beneficiary was a factory in Wałbrzych, 40 km from the mine and connected to it by a railway line. As a result, Balamara has an additional assurance that the product will meet the requirements of local coking plants.