Opencast mining Vereinigtes Schleenhain, area Schleenhain, in the East of Saxony Anhalt.

Coal extraction for Vereinigtes Schleenhain is up to 11 Mio. tons of brown coal per year.

In the history of the opencast mining Schleenhain 5 villages were devastated, over 1000 people had to move.

Main supplier for the powerplant Böhlen Lippendorf