US EditionLast Shift: the Czech Republic Ends Its Black Coal Operation on Sunday Night for the First Time in a Quarter of a Millennium
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Fifty miners will say goodbye to the last open coal mine in the Czech Republic, located in Stonava in the Karviná region, on Sunday night. The final shift awaits them. After that, the intricate network of mine tunnels, of which miners have dug eleven hundred kilometers during the existence of the ČSM Mine, which is the distance from Stonava to Paris as the crow flies, will be closed for good.
On Sunday night, the machines in the last face 463 204/1 operating in the Natan seam at the ČSM Sever Mine in Stonava, Karviná Region, will finally fall silent. This will end mining in the last OKD coal mine, ending coal mining in the Czech Republic after almost 250 years.
In the locker room, he put on his hiking boots for the last time, put on his helmet, and quickly drank the obligatory goulash on the way to the mining cage. Karel Blahut, a racing driver for the ČSM Mine, hiked to a depth of 1,300 meters after the 7,058th time. But this time it was different.
The Czech Republic will close its last hard coal mine on Saturday and cease mining. 750 people will lose their jobs. Another 150 will lose their jobs on February 28th. In the early 1990s, 100,000 people worked in hard coal mining. Hard coal mining in the Czech Republic lasted over 250 years. "There's no one left in the Czech Republic to supply coal to." The article, "Czech Republic to close its last hard coal mine on Saturday and cease mining," …
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