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Upper Silesian Coal Basin

Coordinates: 50°15′N 19°00′E / 50.250°N 19.000°E / 50.250; 19.000
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Economic activity in Poland in 1990. The Upper Silesian Coal Basin is visible in brown, in the southern part of the country.
The northern part of the Upper Silesian Coal Region around Katowice in 1905

The Upper Silesian Coal Basin (USCB; Polish: Górnośląskie Zagłębie Węglowe, GZW, Czech: Hornoslezská uhelná pánev) is a coal basin in Silesia, in Poland and the Czech Republic.[1]

The Basin also contains a number of other minable resources, such as methane, cadmium, lead, silver and zinc. Coal depth is approximately 1,000 meters, and contains about 70 billion tons, with good extraction potential.

Industrial areas within the Upper Silesian Coal Basin include the following:[1]

The Upper Silesian Coal Basin lies in a highland, between the upper Vistula and the upper Oder rivers. It is located mainly in the Silesian Voivodeship in Poland as well as extending into the Moravian-Silesian Region in the Czech Republic.

The Upper Silesian Coal Basin includes the Silesian polycentric metropolitan area and has a population of 5,294,000 (with 4,311,000 in Poland and 983,000 in the Czech Republic).[2] Area: 5,400 km² (in Poland - 4,500 km², in Czech Republic - 900 km²)[1] or 5,600 km².[3]

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References

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  1. ^ a b c (in Polish) "Górnośląskie Zagłębie Węglowe" - PWN Encyclopedia
  2. ^ European Spatial Planning Observation Network (ESPON) (pdf) Archived 2009-07-28 at the Wayback Machine ISBN 2-9600467-2-2
  3. ^ "Silesia" (PDF). europa.eu.

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50°15′N 19°00′E / 50.250°N 19.000°E / 50.250; 19.000