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Coal / Uranium Mine
Balasu Coal Mine
44th-largest coal / uranium mine in China of 2,582 · top 3% worldwide (#130 of 4,963)
- Operator
- Shaanxi Yanchang Petroleum and Balasu Coal Industry Company
- Owner
- Shaanxi Yanchang Petroleum and Balasu Coal Industry Company
- Status
- operating
- Mineral
- coal
- Output
- ~15 Mtpa
- Commissioned
- 2024
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- Inner Mongolia Buriqi Coal Mine18 km · Coal / Uranium Mine
- Dahaize Coal Mine19 km · Coal / Uranium Mine
- Inner Mongolia Ordos Sulige wind/solar/gas/storage/hydrogen complex wind farm22 km · Power Plant · 1.0 GW · wind
- Weilai Energy & Chemical captive power station25 km · Power Plant · 150 MW · coal
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SOURCE: Global Energy Monitor · Global Coal Mine Tracker (GCMT) (CC BY 4.0)