Upper Silesian Coal Basin


The Upper Silesian Coal Basin is a coal basin in Silesia, in Poland and the Czech Republic.
The Basin also contains a number of other minable resources, such as methane, cadmium, lead, silver and zinc. Coal depth is approximately 1,000 meters, and contains about 70 billion tons, with good extraction potential.
Industrial areas within the Upper Silesian Coal Basin include the following:
The Upper Silesian Coal Basin lies in a highland, between the upper Vistula and the upper Oder rivers. It is located mainly in the Silesian Voivodeship in Poland as well as extending into the Moravian-Silesian Region in the Czech Republic.
The Upper Silesian Coal Basin includes the Katowice-Ostrava metropolitan area and has a population of 5,294,000. Area: 5,400 km² or 5,600 km².

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