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Coal / Uranium Mine
Datong Caoduogou Coal Mine
1930th-largest coal / uranium mine in China of 2,582 · top 67% worldwide (#3,316 of 4,963)
- Operator
- Shanxi Coal Import and Export Group Zuoyun Caodoogou Coal Industry Co Ltd
- Owner
- Shanxi Coal Import and Export Group Zuoyun Caodoogou Coal Industry Co Ltd
- Status
- operating
- Mineral
- coal
- Output
- ~0.6 Mtpa
- Commissioned
- 2020
Comparable coal / uranium mines · China · 2,582 ranked
- #1Zhundong South Surface Mine
- #1928Tengzhou Liuzhuang Coal Mine
- #1929Xinjiang Kelji Coal Mine
- #1930Datong Caoduogou Coal Mine
- #1931Datong Heshangzui Coal Mine
- #1932Datong Xinwang Coal Mine
Co-located infrastructure · within 25 km
- Yanzishan Coal Mine971 m · Coal / Uranium Mine
- Que’er'shan Coal Mine2.1 km · Coal / Uranium Mine
- Datong Heshangzui Coal Mine5.4 km · Coal / Uranium Mine
- Shanxi Province Datong Gaoshanzhen Xiaoyaotou solar farm9.8 km · Power Plant · 100 MW · solar
- 500 kV line11 km · Transmission Line
- Shanxi Datong "Front Runner " Jingneng solar farm13 km · Power Plant · 100 MW · solar
- Shanxi Datong Xinrong (SPIC) solar farm14 km · Power Plant · 800 MW · solar
- Datong Jidong Cement Co Ltd Cement Plant20 km · Cement Plant
- Datong Qifengshan Cement Co. Cement Plant21 km · Cement Plant
- Shanxi Gas Pipeline Network — Huairen–Zuoyun–Youyu Pipeline21 km · Pipeline
- Datong Yunzhong Cement Co. Cement Plant21 km · Cement Plant
Methane observations · within 25 km
- 3,084 kg/hr · coal mine2025-01-21 · 20 km
- 2,262 kg/hr · coal mine2025-01-21 · 19 km
- 1,836 kg/hr · coal mine2025-02-18 · 25 km
- 1,750 kg/hr · coal mine2024-04-16 · 25 km
- 1,606 kg/hr · coal mine2025-03-31 · 14 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)