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- Title
Some questions of mine safety of small mines in Hungary.
- Authors
Molnár, József; Tompa, Richárd
- Abstract
Annual output of Hungarian underground coal mining has been obviously and continuously decreasing for the past four-five decades. Some events, e.g. reducing number of mines and especially longwalls, etc. were not really obvious, as they were real steps of modernizing mining technology. By the end of the 1980ies evident economic problems changed the perspective of the mines. Many of them joined to the neighboring thermal power plants and others operated as independent enterprises mostly for extracting household coal. The last coal mine, part of joint venture with a coal-fired power plant was shut down at the end of 2014. Only one small underground mine of low output and simple machinery are still in operation, sometimes having some difficulties from financial and environmental aspects. But fortunately several smaller mines operate economically. On the other hand a new safety regulation was issued some years ago for underground mining in Hungary. Questions of ability of small mines to meet requirements of this regulation are discussed in the paper.
- Subjects
HUNGARY; MINE safety; COAL mining; ECONOMIC development; PROBLEM solving; HEAT storage
- Publication
Quality - Access to Success, 2017, Vol 18, p272
- ISSN
1582-2559
- Publication type
Article