Jilț Coal Mine

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

Jilț Coal mine

Location
Location	Mătăsari
Commune	Gorj County
Country	Romania
Production
Products	Coal
Production	7,000,000 tonnes
Financial year	2008
History
Opened	1984
Owner
Company	National Company of Lignite Oltenia

The exploitation has two open pits Jilț Sud, Jilț Nord that produced 7 million tonnes of lignite in 2008.^[1] The mine has around 2,400 workers and is endowed with 15 bucket-wheel excavators, seven spreaders, two mixed machines and one deposit spreader.^[1] The total proven recoverable reserves of the mine amount to 285.8 million tonnes of lignite.^[1]