Black coal mining in Karviná region to continue until 2025

Coal mining at the ČSM black coal mine in the Karviná district in north Moravia will continue until the end of 2025, Finance Minister Zbyněk Stanjura and Roman Sikora, board chairman of mining company OKD, said on Friday.

OKD is the only producer of hard coal in the country. According to the original plans, mining was supposed to end there this year, but in June a decision was made to extend it until at least the end of 2023.

OKD is the only producer of black coal in Czechia. In recent years, however, most of its mines have ceased production because it was not profitable in the long term.