Ruben Mine
Rubengrube (Ruben Mine) in Neurode, early 20th century | |
Ruben Mine | |
| Location | |
|---|---|
| Location | Nowa Ruda (Kohlendorf) |
| Voivodeship | Lower Silesian Voivodeship |
| Country | Poland |
| Coordinates | 50°34′46″N 16°30′33″E / 50.57944°N 16.50917°E |
| Production | |
| Products | Bituminous coal, refractory shale |
| Production | 225,976 t |
| Financial year | 1912 |
| Type | Underground |
| Greatest depth | 260 m |
| History | |
| Opened | 1780 |
| Closed | 1940s |
The Ruben Mine (Rubengrube; after 1945 part of the Piast field of the Nowa Ruda mine) was an underground bituminous coal and refractory-shale mine in Nowa Ruda, historically Neurode, in Lower Silesia. It belonged to the Neurode coal district and was one of the district's four major collieries before the First World War. It is chiefly remembered for the carbon-dioxide outburst of 10 May 1941, in which 187 miners were killed, the deadliest mining disaster in Lower Silesia before 1945.