The Central Moravian Carpathians () are a mountain range within the Czech Republic belonging to the Outer Western Carpathians.
Despite the name, they stand in southern Moravia, east of Brno. In the east, they border on the Slovak-Moravian Carpathians; in the south, they stretch down to the Thaya Valley and the South-Moravian Carpathians. The mountains are mostly forested, planted with beech and spruce trees.
<big>Lignite mining</big>
In the past, from 1824 up until the 1990s, lignite was mined in the Kyjov hills. These hills house the Kyjov field, part of the South Moravian lignite basin. The field is 15 km long and 4 km wide, and its thickness being 3-6 m.
The Julius mine, near à  ardice was first opened in 1911. At the beginning of the 1940s, the yearly yield of lignite was 55 000 tonnes. In the year 1960, the mine was renamed to the 9th of May mine. Up until its closure in 1978, the mine produced a total of 3 689 200 tonnes of lignite.
The Dukla mine was opened in 1965. On the 9th of June 1970, after a heavy storm, the mine was flooded. These events took the lives of 34 miners. The mine was closed on the 21st of December 1992 with its average yearly yield being 550 - 600 thousand tonnes of lignite.
<big>Oil industry</big>
The Central Moravian Carpathians are home to deposits of paraffin oil. In 1973, a deposit was opened near à ½dánice. Since 1978, rigs have been extracting near KoryÃÂany. In 2006, the total amount of oil extracted was 18,600 tonnes. In 1986, near the town of Damboà Âice, one of the largest deposits in the whole of Czechia was discovered. Its daily yield makes up 55% of the oil production of the country. Other deposits have been found near Uhà Âice, Kostelany and BuÃÂovice.
<big>Building material mining</big>
With short breaks in service, the à ½lutava quarry has been continuously running since the second half of the 19th century up until today (as of 2026). It specialises in the mining of silicate-limestone sandstone. It has been operated by Kamenolom à ½lutava s.r.o. since 1997.
The Central Moravian Carpathians are geomorphologically subdivided into: