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Supervised plants

Polish Mining Industry - plants supervised by the mining authorities in 2022, including employment and output data.
  Mining or other plant/entity type No. Employment - own team
(as on
31.12.2022)		 Output in 2022
1.
Underground:
 36 82 394
  
hard coal 20(1) 68 165 52 832,4 thousand tons (2)
hard coal (in closure) 8(3) 1 071 -
hard coal under construction 1 10 -
copper ore 3 12 224 32 218,2  thousand tons
zink and lead ore 1 17 -
salt 1 804 1053,9 thousand tons (4)
gypsum and anhydrite 1 82 118,7 thousand tons
extracting curative brine 1 21 610 m3
2.
 
Plants conducting activities described in Article 2(1) of the Geological and Mining Law
 21(5) 1 398 -
Including plants performing tunnelling with the use of mining technologies
 2 34 -
3.
 
Surface:
 7 314
 27 341
  
- covered by the mining ownership
 10 5 542
  N/D
lignite 5(6) 5 437 55 193,7 thousand tons
other 5 105 N/D
- covered by the property rights in land
 7 304(7) 21 799
 N/D
4.

 

  
Drilling:
 102 3 447  
oil and gas 9 (8) 2 510 815 thousand tones + 4,749 billion m3
salt 2 (9) 96 2 878,7 thousand tons
sulphur 2 361 476,9 thousand tons
therapeutic and thermal waters and brines 82 387 14 010 thousand m3
methane from seams 4 20 5 564,0  thousand m3
underground gas storage 2 (10) 73 -
underground storage of waste in closure 1 0 -
5. Plants conducting geological works as described in Article 86 of the Geological and Mining Law 203 2 872(11) -
TOTAL EMPLOYMENT (own team together)
 117 452 -
6.  Branches of entities conducting professional activities entrusted to them in mining or plant operations 3747(12)  49 369  -
 Including branches of entities performing tunnelling with the use of mining technologies  2 255  -
EMPLOYMENT IN TOTAL (own team together with third sector players)   166 821
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  1. 20 mining plants extracting hard coal in 30 operations.
  2. Source: Industrial Development Agency.
  3. Being branches of SRK S.A.
  4. Including salt output from KGHM Polska Miedź S.A. “Polkowice-Sieroszowice” mining plant.
  5. Including Central Drainage Plant (CZOK).
  6. 5 brown coal mining plants (including 7 operating open pits and 4 open pits in liquidation).
  7. All stages of mining activities (plants conducting operational activity, before the start of mining operation, halted, abandoned, in the process of closure or reclamation).
  8. The number provided includes: 2 mining plants extracting minerals from maritime areas of the Republic of Poland, 2 mining plants functioning as branches of PKN Orlen S.A., which are the Sanok and Zielona Góra Branches (which all in all include 52 oil or natural gas mines and 7 underground gas storage facilities including 2 underground storage facilities in Sanok Branch for high nitrogen natural gas storage functioning outside the national natural gas grid), and 5 mining plants functioning in the structures of other entities.
  9. Including 1 in closure; there are 2 mines functioning within mining plant IKS “Solino”, i.e. Salt Mine and Underground Oil and Fuel Storage Facility “Góra” and Salt Mine “Mogilno”.
  10. 2 Cavern Underground Gas Storage Facilities (CUGS “Mogilno”, and CUGS “Kosakowo” in expansion).
  11. Because of their peculiarity plants conducting geological works can act within territorial competence of a number of district mining office (increased number of employees).
  12. The number of branches of entities may be overestimated due to repeatability of services provided to a number of mining or other plants, which are mentioned in Article 2(1) and Article 86 of the Geological and Mining Law.

 

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