Banovici Coal Mine

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Banovici Coal Mine (Banovići) is an operating coal mine in Banovici, Tuzla Canton, Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Location

Table 1: Project-level location details

Mine Name	Location	Coordinates (WGS 84)
Banovici Coal Mine	Banovici, Tuzla Canton, Bosnia and Herzegovina	44.419483, 18.453354 (exact)

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Project Details

Table 2: Project status

Status	Status Detail	Opening Year	Closing Year
Operating	–	1938	–
Shelved	–	–	–

Table 3: Operation details

Note: The asterisk (*) signifies that the value is a GEM estimated figure.

Capacity (Mtpa)	Production (Mtpa)	Year of Production	Mine Type	Mining Method	Mine Size (km2)	Mine Depth (m)	Workforce Size
–	1.5	2022	Underground & Surface	–	–	60*	2769
0	–	–	Underground	–	–	494*	*

Table 4: Coal resources and destination

Total Reserves (Mt)	Year of Total Reserves Recorded	Total Resources (Mt)	Coalfield	Coal Type	Coal Grade	Primary Consumer/ Destination
–	–	–	Tuzla Basin	Subbituminous	Thermal	Tuzla Thermal Power Plant
162	–	194	Tuzla Basin	Subbituminous	Thermal	Tuzla Thermal Power Plant

Table 5: Ownership and parent company

Owner	Parent Company	Headquarters
RMU Banovici dd	RMU Banovici dd [100%]	Bosnia and Herzegovina
RMU Banovici dd	RMU Banovici dd [100%]	Bosnia and Herzegovina

Table 6: Historical production (unit: million tonnes per annum)

Note: The asterisk (*) indicates that the value is an estimated figure based on various factors, including the company's forecasted or reported monthly or quarterly production data, etc.

ROM or Saleable	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023
Saleable	1	1	1	1	1*	1*	–

Note: The above section was automatically generated and is based on data from the Global Coal Mine Tracker April 2024 release and the September supplement.

Background

Banovici coal mine is a surface and underground mine near Banovici in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The surface sections are Grivice and Turija sections, the Omazici is an underground section. After three decades of exploitation, another surface mine section Čubrić was closed in 2011.

The mines are owned and operated by the coal mining company RMU Banovici. The company is listed on Sarajevo Stock Exchange.

Coal from the mine is used to supply Tuzla Thermal Power Plant, owned by Elektroprivreda BiH, a public power utility. Coal is also exported to Serbia.

The United States Geological Survey from 2017-2018 and the company's website reported production as 1.5 million tonnes. H1 2022 production was 753 thousand tonnes, which is consistent with the 1.5 million annual estimate. An article dated September 2022 referred to the mine's capacity of 1.6 million tonnes per annum, having produced 1 million tonnes as of September 2022 since the beginning of the year.

In June 2023, the company was seeking an additional short-term loan of 2.5 million marks (ca USD 137 million), after the recent loan of 5 million marks (ca USD 274 million). At the same time, the management structure of the company was changed after the decision of the government.

A government source from October 2023 stated that the company is in a difficult financial situation caused by poor technological processes and inadequate investment practices in the past. Measures were discussed to address the issue to make sure that RMU Banovici is stabilized.

In January 2024, it was reported that RMU Banoviuci signed a contract with Elektroprivreda BiH to supply about 0.8 Mt of coal in 2024.

• Owner: RMU Banovici dd
• Parent: Government of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina [69.5%]; others [23.4%]; ZIF HERBOS FOND d.d. Tuzla [7.1%]
• Location: Banovici, Bosnia and Herzegovina
• Coordinates: 44.41592276484279, 18.531199645471904 (exact)
• Status: Operating
• Production: 1.5 million tonnes, 1.6 Mt (2020), 1.6Mt (2021 estimate based on 10m 2021), 1.5 Mt (2022 estimated based on 8m 2022 of 1Mt)
• Total Resource: 194 million tonnes (2008)
• Total Reserves: 162 million tonnes (2008)
• Coal Type: Subbituminous (Thermal)
• Mine Type: Surface and underground
• Start Year: 1974 (Turija), 1984 (Grivice), 1938 (Omazići)
• Source of Financing: Commercial bank

Expansion

In 2020 it was announced that the company plans to increase production by 0.5-0.6 million tonnes per annum. However it appeared that the project has not progressed and was considered Shelved. RMU Banovici was also developing a 350MW power plant Banovici power station, but the plans to appear to be on hold, as of January 2023.

Project Expansion Details

• Status: Shelved
• Capacity: 0.6 million tonnes announced in 2020
• Mineable Reserves:
• Start Year:
• Source of Financing:

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