Private company

OKD

Logo: agentura BisonRose, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons4

Company in the Czech Republic

OKD (Czech: Ostravsko-karvinské doly, lit. 'Ostrava-Karviná mines') is a major mining company in the Czech Republic, the only producer of hard coal in the country with an annual production of around 8-9 million tonnes from 4 mines with 23 shafts extracting coal from depths ranging from 600 to 1,300 metres below the surface. Its coal is mined in the Karviná basin in the southern part of the Upper-Silesian coal basin (operations in the Ostrava basin were stopped in early 1990s).2 It was founded in 2017 by Správa pohledávek OKD.1 It employed 2,428 people in 2024.1 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0

Last updated Oct 20, 2026.

Overview

Mar 31, 2017Founded1
  • Industrymining1
  • HeadquartersKarviná1
  • Websitewww.okd.cz
  • Legal formakciová společnost1
  • LEI315700KQU4IWMFNLRZ913
  • StatusActive3
  • LEI statusIssued and current3
  • Registered address1077, 735 34 Stonava, Czechia3
  • Registered withMinistry of Justice, 059792773

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OKD (Czech: Ostravsko-karvinské doly, lit. 'Ostrava-Karviná mines') is a major mining company in the Czech Republic, the only producer of hard coal in the country with an annual production of around 8-9 million tonnes from 4 mines with 23 shafts extracting coal from depths ranging from 600 to 1,300 metres below the surface.2

Corporate structure

OKD is part of a group headed by Prisko. 3 entities, 2 countries on record. Switch between the flow chart and the network, and select any entity to see its details.

Built from parent and subsidiary links from GLEIF, the Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (CC0); subsidiaries, stakes and holdings from Wikidata (CC0). Each entity in the chart links to its source.

The story

Founded by Správa pohledávek OKD on Mar 31, 2017.1

Products and brands

  • anthracite

Listed on Wikidata.1

There are four active OKD hard coal mines: Karviná, Darkov, Paskov and ČSM. Reserves in these active mines total 195 million tonnes (as at 1 January 2012). Mining is carried out in the active part of the district in area of 133.65 km2 in nine face working areas.

Major customers include ArcelorMittal, ČEZ, Dalkia, Dunaferr, Moravia Steel, U.S. Steel, Verbund and voestalpine.

Karviná Mine: Lazy and CSA mines were combined into one business unit named Karviná in 2008. In 2014 Production 3.048 million tonnes, reserves 20 million tonnes, coal type: Semi-Soft Coking/Hard Coking/Thermal. On 20 December 2018, 13 miners were killed and 10 more injured in a methane explosion there. Twelve of the fatalities were Poles. This was the worst mining disaster in the Czech Republic since 1990, when 30 miners died at a mine near Karvina.

Darkov Mine: Mining in the area where the Darkov mine is located began in 1853 in the Gabriela mine. The Hohenegger and Austria mines began production in 1883 and 1907, respectively. These mines were merged in the 1950s. The Závod 2 site began operations in 1982. In 2014: production 2.195 million tonnes, reserves 9 million tonnes, coal type: Semi-Hard Coking/Thermal. In February 2021, the operating of the mine came to an end.

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ČSM Mine: The construction works for ČSM mine (also known as the Czechoslovak Youth Mine), located in Karviná began in 1958 and operations began in 1968. In 2014: production 2.236 million tonnes, reserves 26.5 million tonnes, coal type: Semi-Soft Coking/Hard Coking/Thermal. Situated in Stonava, Karviná, Albrechtice and Chotěbuz. This mine remained the last operating mine in the Czech Republic, and in January 2026 it was reported it will come to an end by late January.

Paskov Mine: Paskov, with its one active site in Staric, is the only active mine in the Frýdek-Místek region. The original Paskov site was founded in 1961, began operations in 1965 and closed in 1999. The Staric site was founded in 1963 and began operations in 1970. In 1994, the Paskov and Staric sites were merged into Paskov. In 2014: production 862,000 tonnes, reserves 2.5 million tonnes, coal type: Hard Coking. Paskov Mine is very problematic. Paskov mine stopped being operational on 31 March 2017, as part of the decline of hard coal mining in Czechia.

From Wikipedia’s article on OKD, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.5

Subsidiaries and ownership

Owners

Former owners and parents

  • Správa pohledávek OKD until 2017

From Wikidata.1

Employees over time

OKD employees by year12.4K in 2024−65% since 2018
02.0K4.0K6.0K8.0K2018: 6.9K6.9K20182019: 6.5K6.5K2019−5%2020: 5.8K5.8K2020−11%2021: 3.1K3.1K2021−47%2022: 2.6K2.6K2022−15%2023: 2.5K2.5K2023−5%2024: 2.4K2.4K2024−3%
  • 20242,4281
  • 20232,4981
  • 20222,6181
  • 20213,0741
  • 20205,7711
  • 20196,5201
  • 20186,8951

Timeline

  1. Mar 31, 2020Parent Directly consolidated by Prisko3
  2. Mar 31, 2017Founded Founded1

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