Przedsiębiorstwo Górnicze Silesia
The hard coal mine Silesia (Polish: Przedsiębiorstwo Górnicze Silesia ) is an active hard coal mine in Czechowice-Dziedzice (Poland). It is managed by the PG "SILESIA" sp. z oo operated.
history
The beginnings
The establishment of the Silesia colliery is directly linked to the exploration of the salt deposits in the Goczałkowice region (salt production until 1920). The first slot (perhaps only a 1860-built drilling hole) with the name "Maria 1" was financed by the Prussian government, and up to a depth of 361 m drilled . On this occasion, not only the expected brine, but also coal was found. The speculation on hard coal took place on the fields "Ida", "Rosa", "Adela" and "Eliza" with a total size of 1.46 km². The award ceremony was carried out by the Mining Authority in Ostrava. From 1900 the operator of the coal mining was the Austrian Dziedzitzer Montangewerkschaft Bielitz , based in Vienna. She had two shafts with a diameter of 4.2 m and a depth of 463 m and a diameter of 4.6 m and a depth of 469 m built. The first shaft was used for ventilation , the second for extraction . The first 24 miners were created from Karviná (now the Czech Republic).
The other years
At the end of the First World War, the mine became the property of Zakłady Górnicze Silesia SA , a Czech company from Ostrava . A short time later this company also acquired the "Paweł", "Hugo" and "Józef" coal fields and began to sink shaft 3 (5 m in diameter). With the outbreak of World War II and the occupation of Poland in September 1939, the mine was named Grube Silesia-Dziedzitz and was managed by Elektrowerke AG (EWAG) in Berlin. In 1944, like the mines in Jaworzno , it came to the Upper Silesia Energy Supply (EVOS). Soviet prisoners of war were also used on Silesia.
After the end of the war, production quickly resumed, initially under the administration of the Rybnickie Zjednoczenie Przemysłu Węglowego, and then under that of Jaworzno-Mikołow. In addition to hard coal extraction, methane was used at an early stage . A gas pipeline was built in 1955 and in 1959 around 80% of the methane escaping was captured and used. In the 1960s there was a significant expansion of the mining area to 16.3 km², the sinking of two additional shafts (weather shaft 5 with a diameter of 5.5 m in Rudołtowice in the freezing process ) and the construction of a new processing facility .
present
The floodplain landscape of the Vistula in the immediate vicinity of the mine caused and continues to cause major problems. Initially, the river was excessively polluted by the discharge of salty water, in 2009 and 2010 the water penetrated from the surface of the earth into the pit during floods and could hardly be controlled there. Perhaps because of this, Kompalnia Węglowa SA in Katowice, which in 2005 operated the association between Silesia and Brzeszcze under the name Oddział KWK 'Brzeszcze-Silesia' Ruch II Silesia , offered the mine for sale. In 2010 it was acquired by PG Silesia, a subsidiary of the Czech company Energetický a Průmyslový Holding . In addition to coal mining, the company has since focused on methane utilization. Today the colliery has five shafts, three for conveying, material transport and cableway, as well as two weather shafts. The Berechtsame km² size of 21.36 since 1976th
Funding figures
1913: 175,000 t; 1938: 282,959 t; 1970: 777,758 t; 1979: 1.22 million t
swell
- Jerzy Jaros: Słownik histoynczny kopalń węgla na ziemiach polskich. Katowice 1984.
- The PG Silesia provides a detailed historical presentation in English at the Internet address http://www.pgsilesia.pl/en/about-us/history (accessed on February 24, 2017).
Web links
Coordinates: 49 ° 56 ′ 22.1 ″ N , 19 ° 0 ′ 51.3 ″ E