Berbești Coal Mine

Berbești Coal Mine is an open-pit mining exploitation, one of the largest in Romania located in Berbești, Vâlcea County.^[1] The legal entity managing the Berbești mine is the National Company of Lignite Oltenia which was set up in 1997.^[1]

Berbești Coal mine

Location
Location	Berbești
County	Vâlcea County
Country	Romania
Production
Products	Coal
Production	2,500,000 tonnes
Financial year	2008
History
Opened	1980
Owner
Company	National Company of Lignite Oltenia

The exploitation has four open pits Seciuri, Olteț, Berbești-Vest, Panga that produced 2.5 million tonnes of lignite in 2008.^[1] The mine has around 1,800 workers and is endowed with 13 bucket-wheel excavators, seven spreaders, one mixed machine and five deposits spreader.^[1] The total proven recoverable reserves of the mine amount to 67 million tonnes of lignite.^[1]