Resource base of Communist Czechoslovakia

Czechoslovakia had significant quantities of coal and lignite. * Hard coal suitable for extraction was present in the Ostrava coalfields and near Kladno, Plzeň (Pilsen), Košice, and Trutnov. * Brown coal and lignite deposits were located around Chomutov and Most, in the Sokolov field near Karlovy Vary, at Teplice, at České Budějovice, and near Modrý Kameň and Handlová in Slovakia. Reserves of oil and natural gas were rather small (see Oil and gas deposits in the Czech Republic). * Iron ore was mined in the Slovenské rudohorie (Slovak Ore Mountains) and near Prague and Plzeň, but reserves have nearly been exhausted in the 1980s. * There were also deposits of copper and manganese ores in the Slovenské Rudohorie. * Lead and zinc ores were found at Kutná Hora and Příbram in central Bo

Resource base of Communist Czechoslovakia

Czechoslovakia had significant quantities of coal and lignite. * Hard coal suitable for extraction was present in the Ostrava coalfields and near Kladno, Plzeň (Pilsen), Košice, and Trutnov. * Brown coal and lignite deposits were located around Chomutov and Most, in the Sokolov field near Karlovy Vary, at Teplice, at České Budějovice, and near Modrý Kameň and Handlová in Slovakia. Reserves of oil and natural gas were rather small (see Oil and gas deposits in the Czech Republic). * Iron ore was mined in the Slovenské rudohorie (Slovak Ore Mountains) and near Prague and Plzeň, but reserves have nearly been exhausted in the 1980s. * There were also deposits of copper and manganese ores in the Slovenské Rudohorie. * Lead and zinc ores were found at Kutná Hora and Příbram in central Bo