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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

A coal-fired power station or coal power plant is a thermal power station which burns coal to generate electricity. Worldwide there are about 2,500 coal-fired...

Christmas in Poland, known in the Polish language as Boże Narodzenie (God's Birth) or Gwiazdka (Little Star), is a major annual celebration, as in most countries...

strongly attacked environmental proposals, arguing that Poland should continue to bet heavily on coal. The party denounced Confederation Liberty and Independence...

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...

This is a list of countries by coal production ranking countries with coal production larger than 5 million tonnes as of 2023. "International - U.S. Energy...

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...

Silesian Coal Basin (USCB; Polish: Górnośląskie Zagłębie Węglowe, GZW, Czech: Hornoslezská uhelná pánev) is a coal basin in Silesia, in Poland and the...

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...

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)...

The economy of Poland is an emerging and developing, high-income, industrialized, mixed economy that serves as the sixth-largest in the European Union...

Halemba Coal Mine disaster refers to the accident of 21 November 2006 in the Halemba Coal Mine, Ruda Śląska, Poland. An explosion of methane and coal dust...

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...

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...

region in Poland. It lies mainly in the Silesian Voivodeship, centered on Katowice. It is situated in the northern part of Upper Silesian Coal Basin,...

Coal phase-out is an environmental policy intended to stop burning coal in coal-fired power plants and elsewhere, and is part of fossil fuel phase-out...

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...

Silesia City Center, located on a brownfield in place of a former coal mine, is the largest shopping centre in Poland when number of stores is considered (310...

The Bełchatów coal mine (Polish: Kopalnia Węgla Brunatnego „Bełchatów”) is a large open-pit mine in the centre of Poland in Bełchatów, Łódź Voivodeship...

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...

south-east of Poland's capital, Warsaw, in the Lublin Coal Basin. The mineral-obtaining licence area where extraction takes place is located in the commune...