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Coal / Uranium Mine
Bongcheon Coal Mine
12th-largest coal / uranium mine in North Korea of 14 · top 89% worldwide (#4,377 of 4,963)
- Operator
- Gaecheon District Coal Mine Joint Enterprise
- Owner
- Gaecheon District Coal Mine Joint Enterprise
- Status
- operating
- Mineral
- coal
- Output
- ~0.19 Mtpa
- Commissioned
- 1933
Comparable coal / uranium mines · North Korea · 14 ranked
- #1Deokcheon Coal Mining Complex
- #10Ryongmun Coal Mine
- #11Hwapung Coal Mine
- #12Bongcheon Coal Mine
- #13Shinchang Youth Coal Mine
- #14Ryongdeung Coal Mine
Co-located infrastructure · within 25 km
- MMI Kaecheon Mine8.5 km · Iron Ore Mine
- Gaecheon Coal Mine8.6 km · Coal / Uranium Mine
- MMI Cheondong Mine14 km · Iron Ore Mine
- Ryongdeung Coal Mine14 km · Coal / Uranium Mine
- Ryongmun Coal Mine14 km · Coal / Uranium Mine
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SOURCE: Global Energy Monitor · Global Coal Mine Tracker (GCMT) (CC BY 4.0)