Poljana Coal Mine

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Poljana Coal Mine is a proposed coal mine in Pozarevac, Central Serbia, Serbia.

Location

Table 1: Project-level location details

Mine Name	Location	Coordinates (WGS 84)
Poljana Coal Mine	Pozarevac, Central Serbia, Serbia	44.582689, 21.186619 (approximate)

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Project Details

Table 2: Project status

Status	Status Detail	Project Type	Opening Year	Closing Year
Proposed	Pre-permit	New	–	–

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
0.7	–	–	Underground	Longwall	–	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
–	–	59	Kostolac	Subbituminous	Thermal	–

Table 5: Ownership and parent company

Owner	Parent Company	Headquarters
JP PEU Resavica	JP PEU Resavica [100%]	Serbia

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

Poljana Coal Mine is a proposed UNDERGROUND mine near Pozarevac, Serbia. The Poljana Coal Mine project is developed by Resavica, which is a Public Company for Underground Coal Mining established as per the government's decision in 2003.

The deposit is located south of about 4 km from the town of Pozarevac and belongs to the Kostolac coal basin. It is located near important railway and road roads and potential consumers (Kostolac and Morava power plants). Estimated investments are EUR 45 million.

In 2017, Resavica submitted to the Ministry of Environmental Protection a request for a decision on the need to prepare a study on the environmental impact assessment. The outcome is unknown.

There have been no news on the project since 2017, however the potential project was still mentioned in the research articles in 2021 and 2022. UNECE's presentation from December 2022 stated Resavica's objective "to begin intensive construction work on the Poljana mine". But the Space plan by the Ministry of Construction, Transportation and Infrastructure published in August 2023 stated that the deposit Poljana is not a priority for exploitation.

In July 2024, Serbia released draft Energy Sector Development Strategy of the Republic of Serbia up to 2040 with projections up to 2050. Although the strategy referred to other potential new coal mine developments, it did not mention Poljana coal mine. However the planning documents of PEU Resavica dated August 2024 still referred to the plan to open the mine. Resavica was planning to conduct geological research based on exploratory drilling of the mine, planned capacity was still 0.7 Mtpa.

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