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    Bogdanka Pniówek Halemba Marcel Coal in Poland is partly mined and partly imported. 144 million metric tons of coal was mined in 2012, providing 55 percent...
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    Coal mining is the process of extracting coal from the ground or from a mine. Coal is valued for its energy content and since the 1880s has been widely...
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  • The History of coal mining goes back thousands of years, with early mines documented in ancient China, the Roman Empire and other early historical economies...
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    Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe. It extends from the Baltic Sea in the north to the Sudetes and Carpathian Mountains...
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    Hydropower: 1.81 TWh Fossil: Hard-coal: 76.61 TWh ( 12.71%) Lignite: 34.57 TWh ( 26.41%) Gas: 13.65 TWh ( 36.48%) Oil: 2.54 TWh Poland's energy and climate policies...
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    Coal is a combustible black or brownish-black sedimentary rock, formed as rock strata called coal seams. Coal is mostly carbon with variable amounts of...
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    Bituminous coal, or black coal, is a type of coal containing a tar-like substance called bitumen or asphalt. Its coloration can be black or sometimes dark...
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    Congress Poland or Congress Kingdom of Poland, formally known as the Kingdom of Poland, was a polity created in 1815 by the Congress of Vienna as a semi-autonomous...
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    Coal in Europe is a term describing the use of coal as an energy source in Europe, including both thermal coal used for power generation and coking coal...
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    coal-fired power station or coal power plant is a thermal power station which burns coal to generate electricity. Worldwide there are over 2,400 coal-fired...
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    Anthracite (redirect from Hard coal)
    are black coal, hard coal, stone coal, dark coal, coffee coal, blind coal (in Scotland), Kilkenny coal (in Ireland), crow coal or craw coal, and black...
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    This is a list of countries by coal production ranking countries with coal production larger than 5 million tonnes as of 2021. "International - U.S. Energy...
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    In the western section, the Silesia-Kraków Upthrust contains rich coal deposits. The third topographic area is located on either side of Poland's southern...
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    The Turów coal mine (Polish: Kopalnia Węgla Brunatnego Turów S.A.) or KWB Turów, is a large open pit mine in the southwest of Poland, located outside Bogatynia...
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    237 companies respectively. Before World War II, Poland's industrial base was concentrated in the coal, textile, chemical, machinery, iron, and steel sectors...
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  • injuring 17 others at the Rydultowy coal mine. 24 July – Polish Defense Minister Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz states that Poland will block Ukraine's bid to join...
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    Węglowa (JSW) S.A. is a large coal mining company from Jastrzębie-Zdrój, Poland, producing around 12 million tonnes of coal every year. The company has...
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  • strongly attacked environmental proposals, arguing that Poland should continue to bet heavily on coal. The party denounced Confederation Liberty and Independence...
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  • Kompania Węglowa (category Coal companies of Poland)
    largest coal mining company in Poland and in Europe, producing around 48 million tonnes of coal every year from 23 mines. On July 12, 1990, the State Coal Agency...
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    Powering Past Coal Alliance (PPCA) is a group of 182 countries, cities, regions and organisations aiming to accelerate the coal phase-out of coal-fired power...
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    Coal mining is an industry in transition in the United States. Production in 2019 was down 40% from the peak production of 1,171.8 million short tons (1...
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    Coal mining has historically been an important industry in Ukraine. Coal mining in Ukraine is often associated with coal-rich Donets basin. However this...
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    Silesian Coal Basin (USCB; Polish: Górnośląskie Zagłębie Węglowe, GZW, Czech: Hornoslezská uhelná pánev) is a coal basin in Silesia, in Poland and the...
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  • Coal dust is a fine-powdered form of coal which is created by the crushing, grinding, or pulverization of coal rock. Because of the brittle nature of coal...
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    Coal power in China is electricity generated from coal in China and is distributed by the State Power Grid Corporation. It is a big source of greenhouse...
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    Republic of Poland, was a country in Central and Eastern Europe that existed between 7 October 1918 and 6 October 1939. The state was established in the final...
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  • Listed below are the worst disasters in Poland's history, listed by death toll. This list excludes warfare, the Holocaust and intentional acts of destruction...
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    operational history. Around 63% of Poland's electricity in 2023 was produced by burning hard coal and lignite (of which Poland has the EU's largest reserves)...
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  • stations in Poland. Poland portal Energy portal Energy in Poland List of power stations in Europe List of largest power stations in the world "Coal-Fired...
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    "Wujek" Coal Mine incident in Katowice on 23 December 1981, the United States imposed economic sanctions against the People's Republic of Poland. In 1982...
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