Zakład Górniczy Brzeszcze

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The Brzeszcze Coal Mine (Polish Zakład Górniczy Brzeszcze ) is an active coal mine in the town of the same name in Poland. It is operated by TAURON Wydobycie SA, a subsidiary of the Polish energy company Tauron Polska Energia .

Concrete tower shaft V

history

The history of the mine Brzeszcze ( location ) dates back to 1898, when the Cracow lawyer, entrepreneur and financier Dr. Arnold Chaim Rapoport had test drillings carried out on coal near the Kaniów, Skidziń and Brzeszcze rivers and came across coal at depths of 56 and 78 meters . This led to the presumption of "Bronislaw" Fields, "Lucy," "Felicia" and "Eugenia". Five years later Shaft "Andrzej I" was sunk and a first floor at 109 meters ascended . Also were surface installations built and created residences for employees.

In the following years coal production rose from 41,226 to 193,904 tons and the number of employees from 446 to 1,225. The mine received a rail connection, a second shaft and a new bottom at a depth of 190 m. In 1913 the mine came into the possession of the Austro-Hungarian state. Since the outbreak of the First World War caused the demand for hard coal to rise sharply, the “Andrzej III shaft” ( location ) was sunk 2 km south of the main facility and production was increased to 330,000.

On November 3, 1918, the Polish treasury took over the mine; it was the only one owned by the state during the Second Republic and was under the direction of the Ministry of Industry and Trade. In this phase the expansion of "Shaft III" to the double shaft system III / IV fell. Despite economic difficulties and a high willingness to strike among the workforce, considerable investments were made between 1918 and 1923, e.g. B. in a new boiler system, a new sorting and electrically operated chain conveyors, which made long face fronts possible.

The global economic crisis brought about considerable cuts here too. Production fell from 1.5 million tons per year to just 704,000 in 1938. In September 1939 it was taken over by the Reichswerke Hermann Göring during the German occupation and ruthlessly exploited during the war. Forced laborers, prisoners and prisoners of war were used and production increased to 1.7 million tons by 1943. On January 18, 1945, after the withdrawal of the German troops, the mine was liberated and secured by Polish workers.

In the post-war period, the 512- and 640-meter level were opened up and the extraction was combined in “Shaft V” (concrete tower with skip extraction). In addition, the daytime facilities were completely renovated so that the production capacity could be doubled from 6,453 to 12,729 tons per day. In the 1980s, the “Andrzej VIII” material shaft was sunk to a depth of 1040 meters. In 2000, the construction of the "Andrzej IX" ( location ) weather shaft was completed, so that from 2002 the fresh weather supply reached a capacity of 20,000 m³ / min.

From 1993 to 2003 the mine belonged to Nadwiślańska Spółka Węglowa before it came to Kompalnia Węglowa SA in Katowice. From 2005 to 2010 there was a merger with the Silesia mine , before it was terminated after only 5 years.

As a high-loss mine (−247.23 zł per tonne of hard coal in 2014), it was spun off from KWSA on May 4, 2015 and assigned to Spółki Restructureyzacji Kopalń. However, the associated shutdown plans were not implemented. Rather, it was taken over by the TAURON Group on December 1, 2016.

Shaft III

present

The mine employed a total of 2,247 workers in the first half of 2014 and produced 1.2 million tons of coal per year. Its coal reserves amount to 312.7 million tons, 66.2 million tons of which are currently tapped and which are characterized by a very low sulfur content. A lifespan of around 33 years is currently expected.

There are four shafts on the main site (Andrzej I, II, V and VIII; V concrete tower with ski lift), and the double shaft system III / IV (currently not in operation) on a separate site 2 km further south. There are also at least two extending weather shafts , namely Andrzej VI and IX. The authorized area is 26.9 km².

Funding figures

1913: 170,964 t; 1938: 704,315 tons; 1970: 1.93 million t; 1979: 3.40 million t; 2014: 1.2 million t

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://wysokienapiecie.pl/energetyka-konwencjonalna/473-kompania-weglowa-12-z-15-kopaln-na-minusie (accessed on February 24, 2017)

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