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Coal / Uranium Mine
Binchang Yangjiaping Coal Mine
317th-largest coal / uranium mine in China of 2,582 · top 15% worldwide (#724 of 4,963)
- Operator
- Pingmei Chang’an Energy Development Company
- Owner
- Pingmei Chang’an Energy Development Company
- Status
- proposed
- Mineral
- coal
- Output
- ~4.85 Mtpa
Comparable coal / uranium mines · China · 2,582 ranked
- #1Zhundong South Surface Mine
- #315Yushupo Coal Mine
- #316Zhong Yu Coal Mine
- #317Binchang Yangjiaping Coal Mine
- #318Fangezhuang Coal Mine
- #319Yanbei Coal Mine
Co-located infrastructure · within 25 km
- Shaozhai Coal Mine7.7 km · Coal / Uranium Mine
- Tingnan Coal Mine9.1 km · Coal / Uranium Mine
- Shaanxi Binxian Jiangjiahe Coal Mine9.8 km · Coal / Uranium Mine
- 750 kV line10 km · Transmission Line
- Binchang power station11 km · Power Plant · 1.3 GW · coal
- Shaanxi Changwu Agricultural solar power plant11 km · Power Plant · 100 MW · solar
- Shaanxi Changwu (Shaanxi Coal) wind farm12 km · Power Plant · 100 MW · wind
- Qingyang-Xianyang Oil Pipeline21 km · Pipeline
Methane observations · within 25 km
- 5,556 kg/hr · coal mine2024-12-16 · 10 km
- 1,550 kg/hr · coal mine2025-02-26 · 12 km
- 1,472 kg/hr · coal mine2025-03-19 · 10 km
- 1,061 kg/hr · coal mine2025-05-02 · 17 km
- 1,010 kg/hr · coal mine2025-02-26 · 10 km
Satellite detections from Global Energy Monitor’s Global Methane Emitters Tracker, each an instantaneous rate on the date shown — not an annual total, and not a current reading. GMET attributes a plume to a type of infrastructure, not to a named facility: these were observed near this asset, which is not evidence they came from it.
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SOURCE: Global Energy Monitor · Global Coal Mine Tracker (GCMT) (CC BY 4.0)