News in coal mining

DARKOV – Hot days on the surface, as well as in the mine, were experienced by the Mining Technical Service personnel in the Darkov Mine. It was just in the greatest heat of July when they were finishing two great relocations of the mining equipment, acquired under the POP 2010 Program – one relocation was carried out without any disassembly, and the other one with disassembly.... more

OSTRAVA – It was a nerve-racking job, but in the end, everything was excellently completed! This brief sentence expresses the feelings of those who were assigned to deliver in time the Bucyrus mining complex, the last one under the POP 2010 Program, to the Paskov Mine. In the previous days, a compatibility test was carried out on a section of this mining complex in Bastro, a former Ostrava-based company, which is now a subsidiary company of Bucyrus.... more

KARVINÁ – Tropical heats trouble people on the surface, and miners in the mines also struggle with heat. Whereas for the people on the surface, it is something extraordinary, for the miners, it is just a routine task. Therefore, the natural ventilation system, as well as a well-designed air conditioning system is very important to any mine.... more

CHLEBOVICE – The last delivery within the historically largest capital project of OKD, known as POP 2010, is absolutely the first mining complex of Bucyrus for the Paskov Mine. In the Staříč shaft, it will be used by the most experienced and currently also best mining party led by Chief Foreman Petr Prokop from T3 Section, headed by Michal Hykl. As scheduled, they will start using it from the end of the summer already.... more

STAŘÍČ – For the Paskov Mine, the output, mining and safety results meant its this year’s first inscription on the stand of the OKD Miner’s Lamp Itinerant Trophy. It means that no other pit of our district generated better results for the first quarter as regards the output, the metrage or safety. At Staříč and Chlebovice, this meant 220 thousand tons of coal, 3542 metres of drifts and ZERO serious injuries.... more

STAŘÍČ – In the Paskov Mine, last Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays of January, February and March were marked with the replacement of three conveyor belts of a total length of 920 metres. This was taking place while operation was going on... more

DARKOV – The new mining technology equipment, provided under the POP 2010 Production Optimization Programme, has gained great reputation in our mine. Most recently, it has deserved words of appreciation in the Darkov Mine. The medium complex of Bucyrus DBT 1,3/3,1 was delivered there at the end of the last year, and the local workers decided not to caress it.... more

LAZY – A unique operation has been completed by the Mining Technical Service equipment and liquidation personnel of the Karviná Mine. In the period of 12 February to 12 March, i.e. over 29 operating days, using the so-called direct relocation method, they moved en bloc 106 sections of the largest and heaviest mechanized support in the OKD history – Bucyrus DBT 2800/6000.... more

PASKOV MINE– If the Paskov Mine had had to purchase completely new TH (Touissant – Heitzmann) supports, the costs would have reached an amount somewhere between thirty and forty million Czech Crowns. However, the Paskov Mine did not have to! The issue was taken care of by the renovation workshops located in Staříč and Chlebovice.... more

STAŘÍČ – Hi, did it work out fine? Every morning, Jiří Hantschel, Chief Preparation Foreman from Mine Field P 2, headed by Otmar Smolan, arrives at the meeting with this question, regarding the production process over the last twenty-four hours. His working party, consisting of 24 guys now, ranks among the pioneers of state-of-the-art technologies and new improvement suggestions in the Paskov Mine. And how do Hantschel’s miners really work at the coalfaces?... more