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Coal / Uranium Mine
El Descanso Coal Mine
Largest coal / uranium mine in Colombia of 22 · top 2% worldwide (#64 of 4,963)
- Operator
- Drummond Company Inc
- Owner
- Drummond Ltd
- Status
- operating
- Mineral
- coal
- Output
- ~21.62 Mtpa
- Commissioned
- 2009
Comparable coal / uranium mines · Colombia · 22 ranked
- #1El Descanso Coal Mine
- #2Cerrejón Coal Mine
- #3Compañía Minera y Forestal Coal Mine
Co-located infrastructure · within 25 km
- El Hatillo Coal Mine9.3 km · Coal / Uranium Mine
- Cañahuate solar farm12 km · Power Plant · 190 MW · solar
- Pribbenow Coal Mine15 km · Coal / Uranium Mine
- La Loma - El Copey 500KV15 km · Transmission Line
- La Loma16 km · Substation / Converter
- 500 kV line16 km · Transmission Line
- Ocaña - La Loma 500KV16 km · Transmission Line
- La Loma Solar Park17 km · Power Plant · 150 MW · solar
- La Fortuna (COL) Coal Mine23 km · Coal / Uranium Mine
Methane observations · within 25 km
- 1,263 kg/hr · coal mine2024-01-31 · 19 km
- 1,171 kg/hr · coal mine2024-01-27 · 18 km
- 1,146 kg/hr · coal mine2023-02-23 · 18 km
- 1,048 kg/hr · coal mine2023-06-29 · 3.0 km
- 1,026 kg/hr · coal mine2023-03-10 · 3.4 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)