In May this year, Polish mines extracted approximately 4.4 million tons of coal, and the sales of this raw material reached 4.5 million tons, according to the data of the Industrial Development Agency. Since the beginning of the year, the volumes of production and sales of coal are balanced and the mines sell slightly more coal than they extract in a given month.

On Thursday, the Katowice branch of the Industrial Development Agency, which monitors the coal market and the situation in the domestic mining sector, published data on coal output and sales in the fifth month of 2021. Both output and sales were significantly higher in May than a year ago, when Poland's monthly coal production and sales hit historic lows due to a pandemic.

Last May, mines mined just under 3.2 million tons of coal and sold nearly 3.5 million tons. This year in May, production was more than 1.2 million tons higher than last year, and monthly sales were up year-on-year by more than 1 million tons.

The stock of coal on the dumps at the end of May this year was significantly lower compared to May 2020, when more than 7.4 million tonnes of unsold raw material was on the dumps. Currently, the stock on the dumps is lower by ca. 2 million tonnes - at the end of May this year it amounted to 5.4 million tonnes. 

As of the end of May this year. - As at the end of May this year - as ARP reported on Thursday - mines employed 78.9 thousand people, compared to 79.1 thousand employees a month earlier and over 81.9 thousand last year.

In May, domestic coal output and sales volumes decreased compared with the previous month, when output approached 4.6mn tonnes and sales exceeded 4.8mn tonnes. 

In January this year, coal production exceeded 4.4 million tons and sales exceeded 4.3 million tons, in February this year mines mined almost 4.6 million tons of coal and sold less than 4.7 million tons, and in this year's record March 2021 about 5.2 million tons were mined and about 5.4 million tons of coal were sold.

In the whole of 2020, Polish mines extracted about 7.2 million tons of hard coal less than a year earlier, and sales of this raw material were lower year-on-year by about 5.4 million tons. Mining output decreased by nearly 11.7 percent. (to 54.4 million tons), and sales by over 9.2% (to 53 million tons). (to 53 million tons). 

A year earlier, in 2019, Polish mines extracted more than 61.6 million tons of hard coal - about 1.8 million tons less than in 2018. Coal sales in 2019 amounted to more than 58.4 million tons and were 4.1 million tons lower than in 2018.

(energetyka24.com)