China has been criticised for pursuing an energy-intensive post-COVID recovery based on heavy industry and construction, and experts say new coal plants could end up becoming heavily-indebted "stranded assets".
Coal trade unions, the government and PGG representatives held a new round of talks on Wednesday to discuss PGG's timetable that aims to gradually shut all its mines by mid-century.
Poland, one of Europe's biggest producers of coal, which is a major source of greenhouse gas emissions.
“The geological logging of exploratory boreholes, collection of core samples and their chemical analysis had been completed, while digitization of borehole log data and a technical report was in progress,” a senior official privy to petroleum sector developments told APP.