National Hard Coal Company


The National Hard Coal Company was set up as a commercial society by the Government of Romania in 1998. The main headquarters of the company is placed in Petroșani, the principal city in the coal mining region of Hunedoara County's Jiu Valley.
The company has its material base in Gorj, Hunedoara and Mehedinți counties with total reserves of 350 million tonnes of coal.
The annual production is around 3 million tonnes of bituminous coal and the total number of employees is around 12,000.

Aninoasa coal mine

Aninoasa Coal Mine is an underground mining exploitation managed by the National Hard Coal Company, one of the largest in Romania located in Aninoasa in the south-western part of the country in Hunedoara County. The mine has reserves of 70.7 million tonnes of coal and annual production amounts to 0.4 million tonnes.