Profen coal mine

Profen Coal Mine
Location
	Saxony-Anhalt
Country	Germany
Production
Products	Lignite

The Profen Coal Mine is a coal mine located in Saxony-Anhalt. The mine has coal reserves amounting to 115 million tonnes of lignite, one of the largest coal reserves in Europe and the world and has an annual production of 9 million tonnes of coal.[1] Mibrag pays €550 million ($644 million) in local taxes per year, or 16 percent of the district's revenue.[2]

References

"MIBRAG company" (PDF). kr-ustecky.cz. 2012. Retrieved 2013-07-05.
Wecker, Katharina (1 June 2018). "Germany's mining communities brace themselves for post-coal era | DW | 01.06.2018". DW.COM. Archived from the original on 2018-06-19. Permalink https://p.dw.com/p/2ym4b

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[1] "MIBRAG company" (PDF). kr-ustecky.cz. 2012. Retrieved 2013-07-05.

[2] Wecker, Katharina (1 June 2018). "Germany's mining communities brace themselves for post-coal era | DW | 01.06.2018". DW.COM. Archived from the original on 2018-06-19. Permalink https://p.dw.com/p/2ym4b