Upper Silesian Coal Basin

The Upper Silesian Coal Region around Kattowitz (Katowice) in 1905

Upper Silesian Coal Basin (Polish: Górnośląskie Zagłębie Węglowe, GZW, Czech: Hornoslezské uhelné pánve) is a coal basin in Silesia in Poland and Czech Republic.^[1] It also contains a number of other minable resources (methane, cadmium, lead, silver and zinc). Resources of coal to a depth to 1000 meters - about 70 billion tons, the conditions for the extraction - good.^[1]

Industry areas within Upper Silesian Coal Basin^[1]:

• Upper Silesian Industrial Region (Polish: Górnośląski Okręg Przemysłowy, GOP)
• Rybnik Coal Area (Polish: Rybnicki Okręg Węglowy, ROW)
• Ostrava-Karviná Coal Area (Czech: Ostravsko-karvinská uhelná pánev)

The Upper Silesian Coal Basin lies in the provinces of Upper Silesia and Zagłębie Dąbrowskie in southern Poland, in a highland located between the upper Vistula and the upper Oder rivers, as well as extending into the Moravian-Silesian Region in the Czech Republic. Upper Silesian Coal Basin include the Silesian metropolitan area, 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]

References

1. ^ ^{a b c d} (Polish) "Górnośląskie Zagłębie Węglowe" - PWN Encyclopedia
2. ^ European Spatial Planning Observation Network (ESPON) (pdf) ISBN 2-9600467-2-2

Literature

• (Polish) / (English) "Historia badań i stan rozpoznania hydrogeologicznego Górnośląskiego Zagłębia Węglowego" / "History and State of Hydrological Investigations of the Upper Silesian Coal Basin" - Andrzej Różkowski, University of Silesia, Katowice 2008, ISBN 978-83-226-1759-5
• (Polish) "Geologia i bogactwa mineralne Górnego Śląska i obszarów przyległych" - Wiesław Gabzdyl & Marian Gorol, Silesian University of Technology 2009, ISBN 978-83-7335-561-3

Coordinates: 50°15′N 19°00′E / 50.25°N 19°E / 50.25; 19