The transferred employees were hired mainly for the preparatory works unit and in the electrical and machinery unit. They are all involved in the drilling of two coal faces: the B-1 exploration and transport heading and the W-4 cross-heading, as well as the maintenance and expansion of the existing infrastructure. – Three additional coal-face crews from the Jastrzębie Section will join us in mid-October, adding up to ten crews in total. Also in October, PBSz employees are to begin their horizontal works, drilling shaft-side headings – said Marian Zmarzły, director of the Bzie-Dębina mine under development.

The mine will increase its headcount every year. By 2022, the mine will employ from 600 to 800 people. The planned headcount in the Bzie-Dębina mine should ultimately reach more than 2000. Those will be mainly employees transferred from the Company’s other units.   

Early this year, the Management Board of Jastrzębska Spółka Węglowa made a decision to separate a new mine from the Borynia-Zofiówka-Jastrzębie Integrated Mine, named Bzie-Dębina from the name of the coal deposit. The decision of the Management Board is to help intensify the mining works in this area and contribute to a faster launch of mining of coking coal. The recoverable coal reserves of the new mine are estimated at over 180 million tons of coal in the Bzie-Dębina 1-Zachód deposit (nearly 71.5 million tons of reserves; JSW intends to obtain a concession for this deposit by the year-end) and Bzie-Dębina 2-Zachód (113.8 million tons, JSW already holds the license). Roughly 95% of reserves in the Bzie-Dębina deposits consist of type 35 hard coking coal. The first longwall in the Bzie-Dębina mine is to be opened in 2022.