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...
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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 stopped in early 1990s). The Company produces quality coking and thermal coal for the steel and energy markets in Central Europe.
OKD controls a subsidiary, OKD, HBZS, a.s. (mining rescue service), which pursues activities related to coal mining.
OKD is the largest employer in the Moravian-Silesian Region and the second largest private employer in the Czech Republic. In 2010 on average 17,372 people worked for the Company. OKD´s subsidiary OKD, HBZS a.s. provided jobs for almost 200 people.
The foundations for the later OKD were established...
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