May 27 (SeeNews) - Serbian coal miner Kolubara, part of state-owned energy utility EPS, said on Tuesday its open pit D has restarted mining operations after being idled due to flooding.
Earlier this month, record rainfall triggered the country's worst floods in over a century, causing electricity and coal production cuts.
The excavator, conveyor and spreader systems at Kolubara's D mining basin were restarted late on Monday. Daily production is seen at around 20,000 tonnes of lignite, Kolubara said in a statement.
Kolubara is expected to start shipping coal on Tuesday to the 3,288 megawatt Nikola Tesla thermal power plant, TENT, the country's largest power generation complex.
Kolubara produced 30.7 million tonnes of coal in 2013.