OKD

OKD (Czech: Ostravsko-karvinské doly; Ostrava-Karviná Mines) is a major mining company in the Czech Republic, the only producer of hard coal in the country with an annual production of around 11 million tonnes from 4 mines with 23 shafts extracting coal from depths ranging from 600 to 1,100 metres below the surface.). Its coal is mined in the Karviná basin in the southern part of the Upper-Silesian coal basin (operations in the Ostrava basin were... More

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