Janina coal mine
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| Mining technology | Underground mining | ||
| Funding / year | 2,800,000 t | ||
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| Operating company | TAURON Wydobycie Spółka Akcyjna | ||
| Start of operation | 1907 | ||
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| Degradation of | Hard coal | ||
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| Coordinates | 50 ° 5 '31.6 " N , 19 ° 19' 47.1" E | ||
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| local community | Libiąż | ||
| Voivodeship | Lesser Poland Voivodeship | ||
| Country | Poland | ||
The Janina hard coal mine (Polish Zakład Górniczy Janina ) is an active hard coal mine in Libiąż , Poland. It is operated by TAURON Wydobycie SA, a subsidiary of the Polish energy company Tauron Polska Energia .
history
The mine was founded by the joint-stock company "Galicienne Compagnie des Mines", in which mainly French investors were involved and which had its headquarters in Paris.
In 1906, the construction of the colliery began and the main shaft ( Janina I ; later weather shaft) sunk to a depth of 115 m. Two levels were excavated for the excavation, one at 87 meters, the second at 99 meters. As in many other places in the Upper Silesian-Galician coalfield, the coal was extracted from the piers.
Another shaft with a depth of 100 m was soon added with Janina II . A power station was also built and a rail connection to the Austrian / Galician railway network was established.
The increase in production numbers made further expansion work necessary. Janina II was sunk to a depth of 350 m and a third level was opened up at 295 m. Additional shafts were added for ventilation and material transport. Shaking chutes were first used to transport the coal in 1925.
During the occupation by Nazi Germany, the mine was given the Germanized name "Johannagrube" or "Gute Hoffnung". It was operated by IG Farben and from January 1, 1943 it was taken over by the Fürstengrube GmbH, which also operated the Fürstengrube / Wesolla mine and there Used forced laborers from Auschwitz.
After the Second World War, the mine came to the ZPW Krakow for a short time, but soon to that of Jaworzno-Mikołów.
The first post-war investments consisted of a reconstruction and an extension of the two existing shafts and the sinking of a third shaft, Janina III , above which a winding tower was built and which today brings the entire production to light. Considerable advances have also been made in the field of mechanical extraction, both in coal production and in transportation.
In the five-year period from 1971 to 1975, an independent new plant was created 4.7 km north-west of the previous plant, which was designed for a production capacity of 2000 t per day and went into operation in 1978. During the same period, the old system was upgraded to a daily output of 8,000 tons. However, a planned third system was not built.
present
From 1989 there were numerous restructuring measures, partial closures and changes of ownership. On January 1, 2003, the Janina colliery became part of the KWSA Group (Kompania Węglowa SA) in Katowice, but two years later it was spun off together with Sobieski into the newly formed "Południowy Koncern Węglowy SA" concern. In 2014 it changed its name to "TAURON Wydobycie SA" and since the end of 2015 has been operating the Brzeszcze mine, which was taken over by the KSWA Group (now PGG), alongside Janina and Sobieski .
meaning
With 841 million tons of resources and 388 Mt of reserves in 2003, Janina can access one of the largest coal deposits in Poland. The annual production is around 2.8 million tons. The mine is the most important economic factor and one of the most important employers in the Libiąż Municipality and the surrounding communities.
Funding figures
1910: 19,000 t; 1917: 154,000 t; 1938: 232,735; 1970: 1.65 million t; 1979: 3.43 million t
swell
- Jerzy Jaros. Słownik histoynczny kopalń węgla na ziemiach polskich . Katowice 1984.
- For the history of the mine see http://www.tauron-wydobycie.pl/spolka/zg-janina/historia (accessed on February 22, 2017)
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Zbigniew Grudziński: Wystarczalność zasobów węgla kamiennego w Polsce w świetle planu dostępu do zasobów oraz na prognoz zapotrzebowania węgiel . In: Polityka Energetyczna . Vol. 8, No. 2 , 2005, ISSN 1429-6675 , p. 48 (Polish, PDF, 121 kB [accessed April 1, 2015]).