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Coal / Uranium Mine
Yangquan No. 1 Coal Mine
127th-largest coal / uranium mine in China of 2,582 · top 7% worldwide (#331 of 4,963)
- Operator
- Yangquan Coal Industry Group
- Owner
- Yangquan Coal Industry Group
- Status
- operating
- Mineral
- coal
- Output
- ~8.5 Mtpa
- Commissioned
- 1956
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- #127Yangquan No. 1 Coal Mine
- #128Yangquan No. 2 Coal Mine
- #129Ba Leng Coal Mine
Co-located infrastructure · within 25 km
- Yangquan No. 2 Coal Mine4.2 km · Coal / Uranium Mine
- Shentang Coal Mine5.1 km · Coal / Uranium Mine
- Yinying Coal Mine5.4 km · Coal / Uranium Mine
- Shanxi Yangquan (Longyuan) solar farm5.5 km · Power Plant · 100 MW · solar
- Shanxi Yangquan Kuangqu (Datang) solar farm5.5 km · Power Plant · 100 MW · solar
- Shanxi Yangquan Mining District (Datang) solar/stoarage complex8.0 km · Power Plant · 100 MW · solar
- Shanxi Gas Pipeline Network — Yuxian–Yangquan Suburbs–Pingding Niangzi Guan Natural Gas Pipeline10 km · Pipeline
- Shanxi Yamei Construction Engineering Materials Co. Cement Plant10 km · Cement Plant
- 百度云计算(阳泉)中心11 km · Data Centre
- 500 kV line12 km · Transmission Line
- Yangquan Lionhead Special Cement Co. Cement Plant13 km · Cement Plant
- Yangquan Jidong Cement Co Ltd Cement Plant13 km · Cement Plant
Methane observations · within 25 km
- 11,157 kg/hr · coal mine2025-06-04 · 24 km
- 10,387 kg/hr · coal mine2024-12-15 · 8.8 km
- 10,222 kg/hr · coal mine2024-04-23 · 8.8 km
- 9,079 kg/hr · coal mine2025-04-07 · 24 km
- 8,795 kg/hr · coal mine2025-04-05 · 8.8 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)