ABSTRACT
It has been abandoned exploitation of thin seams in the Polish coal mining industry, since many years. Resources in these seams as an outside industrial retraining, having still relative affluence of thick seams. In a situation where in some mines already resources in the thick seams are getting lower or getting access to them requires a very large investment in deepening of shafts and the construction of new levels of greater and greater depths, it is worth considering whether or not to return to the exploitation thin seams treating it as completion of exploitation of thick seams. Positive experiences in exploitation thin seams are known in Ukraine, where most seams are thin ones. They consider to be a profitable exploitation seams over thick 0.65 m. This ain of this article is to show, of course only on selected thematic section, which geological resources of coal in thin seams we dispose, and what mining-geological conditions are for them characteristic one.
