The Czech Republic will shut its final black coal shaft at the end of January, marking the end of more than 250 years of deep coal mining that once underpinned the rise of heavy industry in Central Europe The last coal is now being extracted from kilometre-deep shafts at the CSM mine in Stonava near the Polish border, as low global coal prices and Europe’s industrial and environmental transition erode demand
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Source and Credit: mining.com