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In H1 2018 the JSW Group posted a net profit of PLN 1,086.4 million. Coal and coke production climbed 5% and 8%, respectively, versus the same period last year. The market for these products continues to be vibrant and stable.

The Management Board of Jastrzębska Spółka Węglowa S.A. has the pleasure of inviting you to watch the Internet broadcast of the financial results of the JSW Capital Group for the H1 2018 which will take place on August 27, 2018 (Monday) at 12:00 p.m.

Jastrzębska Spółka Węglowa has established cooperation with new partners. During the Polish-Australian Energy Forum held in Sydney with the participation of Andrzej Duda, President of the Republic of Poland, letters of intent concerning research and development were…

Representatives of Jastrzębska Spółka Węglowa take part in a business mission in Australia accompanying the Presidential delegation headed by Andrzej Duda, President of Poland. The visit will be devoted to discussing subjects related, among others, to the mining…

A Polish technology company Hawk-e owned by the Jastrzebska Spolka Weglowa Group, will develop an unmanned flight management system to support growth of the market for services provided by unmanned aircraft.

Rational management of raw material resources, environmentally-friendly manufacturing and minimization of the environmental footprint. These and other subjects were discussed during a 3-day conference organized in Katowice by the largest trade union confederations.

The social conference PRE_COP24 organized by the biggest Polish trade union confederations is currently being held. The International Congress Center in Katowice hosts trade union activists from all over the world, as well as scientists, politicians and employers.

Jastrzębska Spółka Węglowa presented an ambitious plan for revitalization of the former Krupiński mine. On the site, JSW plans to develop a modern industrial complex, comprising, among others, a factory manufacturing hydrogen cells and vehicles powered by this natural…

A meeting of the Mining Committee at the Coal Mining Economics and Organization Section of the Polish Academy of Sciences was held in the headquarters of Jastrzębska Spółka Węglowa.

After months of laborious analyses and discussions involving, among others, the mining supervision authority and scientists from the Central Mining Institute, the AGH University of Science and Technology in Kraków and the Silesian University of Technology in Gliwice,…

Jastrzębska Spółka Węglowa changes the image of coking coal among European decision-makers At the Company’s initiative, a conference promoting coking coal as a strategic raw material was held in Brussels in the historic building of Bibliothèque Solvay. This is yet…

Conference will take place on 27 June in Brussels.

Jastrzębska Spółka Węglowa’s current recoverable (mineable) coal reserves are estimated at nearly 1 billion tons, yet the company keeps looking for new opportunities to expand its resource base

Jastrzębska Spółka Węglowa has entered into an agreement with the Faculty of Mining and Geology of the Silesian University of Technology on cooperation with regard to development of the “Crew head’s zone and more” internet training and information platform.

On 14 June, during the IMPACT’18 conference in Krakow, representatives of Management Boards of Jastrzębska Spółka Węglowa and PKP Cargo signed a letter of intent for joint innovative investment projects related to the commercial use of hydrogen fuel.

In Q1 2018 coal production was up by more than 18% compared to the previous quarter. Such high growth results from organizational transformation, new investments and the deployment of innovative solutions to enhance production efficiency

Two miners were rescued while five have perished. The rescue operation has ended in the Zofiówka Section of the Borynia-Zofiówka-Jastrzębie Mine

The Management Board of Jastrzębska Spółka Węglowa hereby reports that in connection with the announced period of mourning the conference concerning the publication of the JSW Group’s Q1 2018 financial results to be held on 18 May 2018 is cancelled.

The miner’s body was trapped under one of the many structures in the H-10 roadway that had been destroyed by the rock burst. The rescue workers will start to transport him to the underground base, and then to the surface. This operation may take several hours.

18 rescue crews are presently working underground. The water on the longwall face has been entirely pumped out, only slurry remains. The rescue workers still have to penetrate the 30-meter-long F-H ventilation tunnel.

The rescue workers continue to scrutinize the spots the search dogs identified yesterday. The water has been pumped out of the intersection of the H-10 and H-2 roadways. The rescue workers have penetrated this area to a large extent; however, they have still not found…

17 rescue crews are presently working underground. Water is still being pumped out of the H-2 and H-10 roadways. We have managed to reduce the water level to such an extent that search dogs could join the operation.

During the most recent night, the water surface subsided to such an extent that rescue workers wearing specialist, watertight suits were able in part to penetrate a 20 m roadway and the H-2 longwall face. The water on the H-10 and H-2 roadways continues to be 1 to 2…

The ninth day of the rescue operation is in progress. More than 2,000 rescue workers have taken part since the outset. 24 crews worked underground today

Rescue workers have found the body of the second of three miners being looked for

On the eighth day of the rescue operation in the Zofiówka Section the rescue workers found one of the three miners being looked for. He is not showing any signs of life. The rescue workers found his body in the flooded area when pumping out water.

The mine rescue workers continue to pump out water. The rim of the water surface of the flooded area that appeared as a result of the rock burst is 12 m from the intersection. No headroom is visible, which may testify to extensive deformation of the mining pit at the…

During the last hour the level of the water surface has fallen by approximately 15 centimeters. Despite that, the flooded area still prevents us from searching the entire section of the roadway.

Mine rescue workers continue to pump water out of the flooded area. The water surface is slowly receding. The effectiveness of this work has fallen on account of the dense sludge in the water.

The two miners injured in the accident on Saturday left the hospital today. The intensive rescue operation continues underground.

A device was dropped down to the H-10 roadway through the borehole, but it did not register any signals besides the sound of water. Rescue workers are constantly toiling to lower the level of the flooded area.

During the night from Thursday to Friday the drillers accurately drilled a second borehole from the round-shaped F tunnel at the 900 m level and connected to the H-10 roadway. This borehole has a diameter of 9.5 cm. The rescue workers are now sinking a cable with a…

Search and rescue dogs have now been brought into the search operation and they have identified two trails. Rescue workers started to penetrate that spot; however, they have not found any of the missing miners.

Rescue workers are utilizing all the possibilities available to reach the miners trapped in the mining pit. Many firms and institutions have offered to help in the rescue operation.

650 employees have been involved in the work underground from the beginning of the rescue operation. More than 1,000 people have been involved if the persons in the crisis management team are included. The search for three miners is still underway.

Our rescue workers have not yet managed to reach the three trapped miners. Water has appeared in the mining pit.

Our rescue workers have still not been able to get to the three miners trapped 900 m underground. The rescue operation is being run in extreme conditions.

21 rescue crews are currently taking part in the rescue operation. In total, 42 crews worked during the day. Contact has still not been made with the three trapped miners.

From this morning rescue workers have searched an area of roughly thirty meters. Nevertheless, specialist search equipment has not detected any signal from the three trapped miners. Nor have any radio transmitters installed in miners’ lamps been found.

The rescue operation in the Zofiówka Section is now in day three. Rescue workers continue the search for three miners. The best equipment has been brought to the mine to help reach the injured miners as quickly as possible.