Oldest Romanian mine closes after 156 years

Petrila, the oldest mine in Romania and until now the deepest in Europe, with shafts going down as far as 940 metres (3,100 feet), opened in 1859 when the country was still part of the Austro-Hungarian empire, AFP reports. It hit peak production in 1983 when workers extracted 1.2 million tonnes of coal - falling to just 110,000 tonnes last year. Since a programme was launched in 1997 aimed at making the industry more profitable, ...

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