Eesti Energia Kaevandused (Eesti Energia Mining) mines oil shale to supply the electricity and oil industries with fuel and raw materials. We also process the enrichment waste from oil shale, sending it as a raw material to the construction materials industry and as gravel for road construction.
The company has four mines, two underground and two opencast, and a rail transport unit.
In the financial year 2008/09, the company produced over 15 million tonnes of oil shale. Most of the company's production is sold to the power plants and oil plants within the Eesti Energia Group. During the financial year 2008/09, the company invested 362 million kroons in improving the production processes. This included completing the new crushed stone plant in the Estonia mine at a cost of over 100 million kroons.
Eesti Energia Mining)maintains the traditions of oil shale mining and is a leading researcher in the field. June 2006 was the 90th anniversary of the start of industrial oil shale mining in Estonia. In order to ensure the raw material for energy production in the future, we have started preparations for a new mine, the Uus-Kiviõli mine.
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The oil shale resources of Estonia belong to the state and are located in the strategically important Estonian deposit. The state issues a licence for oil shale mining to each mine or quarry, assigning a part of the deposit and giving each mine a mining claim. The size of the mining area can be around a hundred square kilometres and the mining claim can cover several hundred million tonnes of oil shale. An opencast pit also requires a full land grant, while an underground mine needs land grants only for the land used for mining-related infrastructure. The procedure and conditions for mining are prescribed in the mining permit and in several laws regulating environmental protection and occupational health and safety.
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