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Coal / Uranium Mine
Wenzhuang Coal Mine
1330th-largest coal / uranium mine in China of 2,582 · top 50% worldwide (#2,437 of 4,963)
- Operator
- Shanxi Lu'an Wenzhuang Coal Industry Company
- Owner
- Shanxi Lu'an Wenzhuang Coal Industry Company
- Status
- operating
- Mineral
- coal
- Output
- ~1.2 Mtpa
- Commissioned
- 2016
Comparable coal / uranium mines · China · 2,582 ranked
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- #1328Weining Meitangou Coal Mine
- #1329Wenjiaba No.1 Coal Mine
- #1330Wenzhuang Coal Mine
- #1331Wugetujing Coal Mine
- #1332Wuhai Xinxing Coal Mine
Co-located infrastructure · within 25 km
- Wuxiang Shanshui Cement Co Ltd Cement Plant2.0 km · Cement Plant
- 500 kV line2.2 km · Transmission Line
- Shanxi Wuxiang County Honglongshan solar power plant2.5 km · Power Plant · 100 MW · solar
- Shanxi Wuxiang Hanbei Agricultural solar farm4.0 km · Power Plant · 100 MW · solar
- Dongzhuang Coal Mine4.2 km · Coal / Uranium Mine
- Shanxi Wuxiang (Huaqi) solar farm5.9 km · Power Plant · 150 MW · solar
- Yangchan Coal Mine6.1 km · Coal / Uranium Mine
- Wangjiayu Coal Mine7.3 km · Coal / Uranium Mine
- 上海庙—临沂特高压直流13 km · Transmission Line
Methane observations · within 25 km
- 5,282 kg/hr · coal mine2024-08-21 · 7.1 km
- 3,657 kg/hr · coal mine2024-04-05 · 7.0 km
- 3,163 kg/hr · coal mine2023-12-22 · 7.0 km
- 2,329 kg/hr · coal mine2024-12-17 · 7.1 km
- 2,239 kg/hr · coal mine2023-03-19 · 7.3 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)