Kopalnia Węgla Kamiennego Halemba

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The Halemba hard coal mine (Polish Kopalnia Węgla Kamiennego Halemba ) is a mining hard coal mine in Ruda Śląska , Poland. The mine, which belongs to the PGG group, lost its independence on July 1, 2016 and is now an operation within the newly established Ruda hard coal mine .

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history

In 1942, the Schaffgotsch works began to sink a shaft called “Godulla” up to 90 m in the south-western field of the Wirek mine . A short time later, the construction of a thermal power plant of the same name began. For this purpose, inmates of the “Althammer” subcamp of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp were used. However, neither of the facilities was completed during the Second World War.

Doppelbock over shaft Grunwald 2

Halemba

After the Second World War, plans to complete a new mine were suspended for a while, before the decision was made to resume work on a mine in Halemba in 1950 due to the great demand for coking coal. The long-planned mine was completed on July 1, 1957, the power plant on October 12, 1962.

Right from the start, the mine produced both thermal and coking coal, but did not have its own coking plant.

On November 21, 2006, a major methane explosion occurred in which 23 Polish miners were killed. Although the area in which the accident occurred had been closed since March 2006 due to high methane gas leaks for safety reasons, a day and a half before the accident, the miners were sent to this area to buy expensive equipment worth 70 million złoty (17 million euros ) to recover

Halemba - Wirek

On July 26, 2007, the two mines Halemba and Polska Wirek came together under the name Halemba-Wirek . However, this merger did not last because it was decided after a short time to shut down the Nowy Wirek production site in the course of 2014.

Grunwald shafts 3 and 4

present

The mine currently has the following six shafts

  • "Grunwald II" (double strut frame Kozlov; location ): Cable trip and material transport
  • "Grunwald III" (Basztowa headframe): Mining (Skipy 30 tons from 1,030 mi 17.5 tons from 830 m)
  • "Grunwald IV" ??: tower striving, dwulin, material and downhill
  • "East" (Wschodni; location ): Weather shaft
  • "North" (Pólnoc; location ) I / II: extending weather shafts with drifts similar to devils

Its authorized area is 24.1 km², the extraction takes place on three levels at depths of 525, 830 and 1030 meters. As of March 31, 2016, 2,656 people were working at Halemba and mining around 9,000 t per day. With a loss of 46.77 zł per tonne of coal mined (as of the first half of 2014), the mine took 8th place out of the 15 mines owned by KWSA at the time.

After the takeover of “Halemba” by the newly founded Polska Grupa Górnicza in 2016, this mine was combined with the “Bielszowice” and “Pokój” facilities in the new “Ruda” joint mine . The mine is the end of a branch line of the Katowice Ligota – Gliwice railway line .

Funding figures

1970: 2.40 million t; 1979: 4.50 million t

literature

  • Jerzy Jaros: Słownik histoynczny kolapń węgla na ziemiach polskich. Katowice 1984.

Web links

Commons : Kopalnia Węgla Kamiennego Halemba  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Halemba? śmieci zamiast prądu? , accessed July 17, 2016
  2. ↑ http://gornicza.com.pl/aktualnosc/4032/czy-w-halembie-powstanie-elektrownia-sloneczna (accessed on July 17, 2016)
  3. ↑ http://tiergartenstrasse4.org/Althammer.html (accessed on July 17, 2016)
  4. ↑ For the German description of the accident see http://www.faz.net/aktuell/gesellschaft/grubenunglueck-in-polen-alle-vermissten-bergfolk-sind-tot-1381697.html (accessed on July 9, 2016)
  5. ↑ see http://www.eksploratorzy.com.pl/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=14269 (accessed on July 7, 2016)
  6. ↑ http://wysokienapiecie.pl/energetyka-konwencjonalna/473-kompania-weglowa-12-z-15-kopaln-na-minusie (accessed on September 6, 2016)