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Coal / Uranium Mine
Hongshan Coal Mine
917th-largest coal / uranium mine in China of 2,582 · top 39% worldwide (#1,913 of 4,963)
- Operator
- Shanxi Hongshan Coal Industry Company
- Owner
- Shanxi Hongshan Coal Industry Company
- Status
- operating
- Mineral
- coal
- Output
- ~1.5 Mtpa
- Commissioned
- 1981
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- #918Hongya Caol Mine
- #919Hongyang No. 2 Coal Mine
Co-located infrastructure · within 25 km
- Shanxi Changzhi Jinyongtai Coal Mine702 m · Coal / Uranium Mine
- Yangtouling Hongqi Coal Mine1.9 km · Coal / Uranium Mine
- Wangzhuang Coal Mine2.1 km · Coal / Uranium Mine
- Shanxi Shangdang (Shanghai Power) wind farm4.4 km · Power Plant · 100 MW · wind
- Changzhi Xinlong power station9.0 km · Power Plant · 700 MW · coal
- Shanxi Huguan Agricultural solar farm11 km · Power Plant · 100 MW · solar
- Changzhi Huatai New Material Technology Co. Cement Plant12 km · Cement Plant
- 1000 kV line19 km · Transmission Line
- Shanxi Gas Pipeline Network — Changzhi-Zhaozhuang-Changping Coalbed Pipeline 22 km · Pipeline
- Shanxi Gas Pipeline Network — Duanshi–Zhangzi Coalbed Project Pipeline25 km · Pipeline
Methane observations · within 25 km
- 116,233 kg/hr · coal mine2024-11-20 · 18 km
- 9,399 kg/hr · coal mine2023-03-30 · 24 km
- 4,433 kg/hr · coal mine2024-04-15 · 22 km
- 4,388 kg/hr · coal mine2024-08-05 · 22 km
- 3,842 kg/hr · coal mine2025-04-14 · 25 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)