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ostrava karvin mines the largest hard coal mining company in the czech republic . nwr nv became listed on the london and prague stock exchanges in 2008 the largest initial public offering on the lse that year as well as the only listing on the pse . nwr is listed in london prague and warsaw . it is a constituent of ftse small cap index . citation needed following substantial continuing losses in 2013 2014 and 2015 3 4 the company shares traded at the end of 2015 at 0.18 czk 0.03 % of their original value . 5 contents 1 history 2 operations 3 references 4 external links history edit regular mining activities in silesia in the northeast region of the czech crown lands commenced in 1782 and were then nationalized in 1946 . the company was established on privatisation of elements of the coal industry of the czech republic which started in 1994 ; in 2004 46 % of the business was bought up by karbon invest which itself was acquired by rpg group owned by mr zdenek bakala a czech billionaire shortly thereafter . 6 in 2005 the coal and coke businesses of that company were restructured as new world resources b.v. and were the subject of an initial public offering as new world resources n.v. in 2008 . 7 in 2013 nwr sold its coke subsidiary okk koksovny a.s. operations edit the company s main operations comprise okd a coal mining business and nwr karbonia a polish coal and coke business . citation needed it mines in the silesian part of the czech republic in karvin basin and has two development projects in poland . citation needed according to its website nwr has 58 million tonnes and 186 million tonnes of joint ore reserves committee reserves in the czech republic and poland respectively and headquartered in the netherlands it employs 14 000 people incl . contractors . 8 according to its website nwr supplies to a blue chip customer base in the region major customers include arcelormittal ez veolia energie moravia steel u. s. steel ko ice s.r.o. verbund voestalpine and thyssenkrupp . 8 references edit new world resources unaudited fy 2014 results 24 february 2015 revenues from continuing operations a b preliminary results 2012 http www.patria.cz zpravodajstvi 2563573 nwr vykazala hlubokou ztratu 466 milionu eur kvuli odpisu aktiv.html http www.financninoviny.cz zpravy bakala leaves management of mining group nwr 1208328 http www.novinky.cz ekonomika 389034 akcie nwr stoji mene nez desetnik pred sedmi lety byly pres sest set.html history of nwr new world resources a determined miner . the economist . 2010 12 02 . retrieved 2010 12 02 . a b http www.newworldresources.eu en about us introduction external links edit official website v t e px companies of the czech republic cetv ez erste group bank fortuna kofola eskoslovensko komer n banka nwr o2 c.r. pegas nonwovens philip morris cr stock unipetrol vienna insurance retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title new world resources & oldid 744273229 categories companies based in amsterdamcompanies established in 2005coal companies of the czech republiccoal companies of polandhidden categories wikipedia articles in need of updating from february 2014all wikipedia articles in need of updatingarticles needing additional references from february 2014all articles needing additional referencesall articles with unsourced statementsarticles with unsourced statements from february 2014articles containing czech language textarticles with unsourced statements from december 2015articles with unsourced statements from october 2016 navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages e tinadeutschespa ol fran ais edit links this page was last modified on 14 october 2016 at 06 08 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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