Kopalnia Węgla Kamiennego Kazimierz-Juliusz

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The Kazimierz-Juliusz hard coal mine (Polish Kopalnia Węgla Kamiennego Kazimierz-Juliusz ) is a hard coal mine in the liquidation phase in Sosnowiec , Poland.

Kazimierz-Juliusz is the last mine in Sosnowiec and mined hard coal in the Dabrowa Basin until May 2015. It was for many years a subsidiary of Katowicki Holding Węglowy (KHW). However, because it did not cover costs and was heavily indebted, an agreement was reached to release the mine from the KHW, to transfer it to Spółka Restructureyzacji Kopalń SA (SRK) and to operate it until the stocks that had already been tapped were exhausted. On May 31, 2015, the production was stopped and mining began. It should be completed by the end of 2016. The final liquidation is scheduled for December 31, 2018.

Shafts I and II on Kazimierz

Big problems with the takeover by the SRK are the jobs, the old debts and the decommissioning costs. For example, obligations of 120 million zł (approx. 28 million euros) and liquidation costs of 160 million zł (approx. 37.3 million euros) are expected . Euro). Most of the miners laid out on Kazimierz-Juliusz are to be employed in other mines of the KHW, 568 miners are to carry out the robbery of the structures and the closure.

Weather shaft V on Kazimierz

history

Felix

In the Ostrowy Górnicze district of Sosnowiec (old name Niemce), a day pit called Felix (Feliks; Lage ) was founded in 1814 by Count Felix Lubienski for the extraction of hard coal, but it was taken over by the Polish royal family three years later. In 1827 civil engineering began in this area, but mining was left to Felix to rest from 1843 to 1859. After a fire in 1861 no more coal was mined until 1874. In that year the property was taken over by the Warsaw Mining and Metallurgy Society (Warszawskie Towarzystwo Kopalń Węgla i Zakładów Hutniczych) and the two shafts Leopold and Gustav were sunk (completed in 1876). The Felix II outdoor complex was built in 1877.

Remains of the old Kazimierz III mine

The mine was in operation under its new owner until 1925 and reached its highest production level in 1922 with 23,960 t.

Dorota

The mine ( location ) was built by Stanisława Knothe and his employees ( Kopalnia Dorota St. Knothe-Spółka Komandytowa ) in 1933 on the eastern edge of Sosnowiec-Ostrowy. During the occupation by the Germans, the mine was operated by Preussag from January 1941 . Although from 1933 to 1941 it belonged to a different mining company than the Kazimierz and Juliusz collieries to the west, it was merged with the aforementioned mines and Porąbka to form Kazimierz-Juliusz after the end of the war. Presumably in this context, Felix's construction site was also added to the new composite mine.

Shaft III of the Juliusz facility

Isolated remains of both shafts belonging to this mine are still present today. In 1938 the production was 294,949 t.

Kazimierz

Because the two mines Felix and Dorota could not meet the increasing needs of the Warsaw Stock Corporation for Coal Mining and Metallurgy ( Warszawskie Towarzystwo Kopalń Węgla i Zakładów Hutniczych ), another mine ( location ) was established on the Warsaw-Vienna railway line in 1874 . After the Kazimierz I shaft was sunk between 1879 and 1883, regular operations began in 1884.

Juliusz

The construction of the Juliusz mine ( Lage ) began in 1902 and the first coal could be mined in 1914. The founder and owner of the colliery was the same AG as at Kazimierz. In 1938 the two mines merged.

CHP Kazimierz-Juliusz

After Kazimierz and Juliusz merged in 1938, Dorota was added to today's composite mine in 1945. This united three mines in the east of Sosnowiec, which - along with others - were exploited by Preussag during the occupation . Later the mining area of ​​Klimontów II was added, so that the mine had an entitlement of 24.06 km².

In the period after the Second World War, numerous investments were made to make the mine future-proof and to meet the prevailing shortage of suitable workers. Not only were the two outer shafts “Maczki” and “Bory” sunk in the mine field, but a health station was also set up and a mine rescue service was created. In the 1970s, Juliusz received a new processing plant and Kazimierz received a new conveyor system.

The process of mechanical coal extraction began underground. In 1959 and 1972, the step extension was introduced. Problems arose from the fact that the seam 510 with a thickness of 21 meters was very productive, but was severely disturbed by several cracks. These faults were sometimes only 200 m apart and did not allow long face fronts.

Processing on Juliusz

At the beginning of the 21st century, there were numerous plans to continue operating the mine successfully. A production of 775,000 tons was planned for 2006 and the aim was to gain 1,900 tons per day through fully mechanized mining. The mining should be limited almost exclusively to the seam 510.

A few years earlier (in the second half of the 1990s), when the Porąbka-Klimontów mine was closed, its construction site had been taken over. The sources do not state why the aforementioned economic difficulties arose despite the restriction to one seam and this takeover.

When it was shut down in mid-2015, the mine had four shafts, K II (double conveyance), KI (rope travel and material transport) and KV (material transport and extending weather shaft) on Kazimierz and Karol (rope travel and material transport) on Juliusz. Dorota and Porąbka-Klimontow have long been shut down, the daytime facilities almost completely demolished.

Funding figures

Kazimierz 1900: 355,241 tons; 1913: 876,465 tons

Juliusz 1929: 596,000 t; 1937: 517,480 tons

Kazimierz-Juliusz 1938: 918,984 tons; 1970: 1.88 million t; 1979: 2.14 million t

Remarks

  1. ↑ see the document http://srk.com.pl/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/SRK_ODDZIAŁ_KWK_KJ1.pdf (accessed on March 16, 2016)
  2. ↑ The difficult financial negotiations in this context are on the page http://akty.interia.pl/polska/news-burzliwe-negocjacje-z-gornikami-kopacz-wyslala-przedstawicie,nId,1526972#iwa_item=3&iwa_img=0&iwa_hash= 20988 & iwa_block = facts_news_small (accessed December 31, 2015).

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