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Aberfan
The Aberfan disaster was the 1966 collapse of a National Coal Board spoil tip onto the village of Aberfan near Merthyr Tydfil, Wales, killing 144 people, most of them children at Pantglas Junior School.
Adaro Energy
Adaro Energy, formally PT Adaro Energy Indonesia Tbk, was an Indonesian coal holding company in South Kalimantan, whose Envirocoal brand made it the world's sixth-largest coal miner.
Afşin-Elbistan Coal Mines
The Afşin-Elbistan coal mines are open-pit lignite mines in Kahramanmaraş Province, southeastern Turkey, holding about 24 percent of the country's lignite reserves and feeding two thermal power plants.
AKK Coal Mine
The AKK Coal Mine is an operating opencast coal mine in Bokaro district, Jharkhand, India, worked by Central Coalfields Limited in the East Bokaro coalfield.
Alpha Coal Project
The Alpha Coal Project was a proposed open-cut thermal coal mine in the Galilee Basin of Central Queensland, Australia, planned with a 495 km railway but never built.
Alpha Metallurgical Resources
Alpha Metallurgical Resources, formerly Contura Energy, is a Bristol, Tennessee company that produces metallurgical coal for the steel industry from mines in Virginia and West Virginia.
Alpha West Coal Project
The Alpha West Coal Project was a proposed underground thermal coal mine in Queensland's Galilee Basin, holding 1.8 billion tonnes of coal and never advancing past a concept study.
Amlohri Coal Mine
Amlohri Coal Mine is a dragline-operated opencast coal mine of Northern Coalfields Limited, a Coal India subsidiary, in Singrauli district, Madhya Pradesh, with reserves of 328.55 million tonnes.
Amrapali Coal Mine
The Amrapali Coal Mine is a large opencast coal mine in Chatra district, Jharkhand, India, operated by Central Coalfields and dedicated to the nation in 2014.
Ananta Coal Mine
The Ananta Coal Mine is a large open-cast coal mine operated by Mahanadi Coalfields Limited, a Coal India subsidiary, in the Talcher Coalfield of Angul district, Odisha, India.
Angren Coal Mine
The Angren Coal Mine is an open-pit lignite mining complex in the Tashkent Region of Uzbekistan, commissioned in 1948 and operated by Uzbekcoal as the country's largest coal mine.
Anjialing Open-Pit Mine
The Anjialing Open-Pit Mine (安家岭露天矿) is a large surface coal mine in Shuozhou, Shanxi, China, the country's first self-designed open-pit coal mine, operating since 2000.
Antaibao Surface Mine
The Antaibao Surface Mine (安太堡露天煤矿) is a large open-pit coal mine in Shuozhou, Shanxi Province, China, born of a $580 million Sino-American joint venture signed in 1985.
Antelope Coal Mine
The Antelope Coal Mine is a large surface coal mine in Wyoming's Powder River Basin, operated by Navajo Transitional Energy Company and producing low-sulfur subbituminous coal shipped by rail.
Anthracite
Anthracite, also called hard coal, is the highest rank of coal, hard and lustrous with about 80 percent fixed carbon, mined mostly in northeastern Pennsylvania.
Appalachian coal region
The Appalachian coal region is a belt of coalfields in the eastern United States covering nearly 70,000 square miles, from Pennsylvania and Ohio to central Alabama.
ArcelorMittal Temirtau
ArcelorMittal Temirtau was a Kazakh steel and mining company in Temirtau that ran Kazakhstan's largest steel plant and eight coal mines until the state took it over in 2023.
Arch Resources
Arch Resources was an American coal mining company formed in 1997, headquartered in St. Louis; it merged with CONSOL Energy in 2025 to form Core Natural Resources.
Armored face conveyor
An armored face conveyor is a heavy chain scraper conveyor along a longwall coal face that carries coal to the headgate and serves as the shearer's track.
Bachatsky Coal Mine
The Bachatsky Coal Mine (Бачатский угольный разрез) is a large open-pit coal mine near Belovo in Kemerovo Oblast, Russia, producing coal continuously since 1949 and reaching 350 million tonnes by 2017.
Bailey Coal Mine
The Bailey Coal Mine is an underground longwall coal mine near Wind Ridge in Greene County, Pennsylvania, producing about 11 million tons of coal a year.
Battle of Blair Mountain
The Battle of Blair Mountain, also called the Red Neck War, was a 1921 armed clash between unionizing West Virginia coal miners and Sheriff Don Chafin's forces.
Benxihu Colliery disaster
The Benxihu Colliery disaster (本溪湖煤矿爆炸) was a gas and coal-dust explosion at the Honkeiko coal mine in Benxi, Liaoning, in 1942 that killed 1,549 people, the deadliest coal mining disaster on record.
Bharat Coking Coal
Bharat Coking Coal Limited (BCCL) is an Indian state-owned coal mining company, a wholly owned subsidiary of Coal India headquartered in Dhanbad, Jharkhand, that produces coking coal for steelmaking from the Jharia and Raniganj coalfields.
BHP Mitsubishi Alliance
The BHP Mitsubishi Alliance (BMA) is a 50:50 joint venture of BHP and Mitsubishi Development that produces steelmaking coal in Queensland's Bowen Basin, formed in 2001.
Big Muskie
Big Muskie was a Bucyrus-Erie walking dragline excavator, the largest ever built, used from 1969 to 1991 to strip coal in southeastern Ohio; its 240-ton bucket is preserved.
Binungan Coal Mine
The Binungan Coal Mine is an open-cut thermal coal mine in Berau Regency, East Kalimantan, Indonesia, operated by PT Berau Coal since 1995 and its largest producing site.
Bituminous coal
Bituminous coal is a middle rank of coal between subbituminous coal and anthracite, and the most abundant rank in the United States, used chiefly for electricity and coke.
Black Thunder Coal Mine
Black Thunder Coal Mine is a large surface coal mine in Campbell County, Wyoming, opened in 1977 and among the largest coal producers in the United States.
Blackdamp
Blackdamp, also known as stythe or chokedamp, is a mine atmosphere whose oxygen has been replaced mainly by carbon dioxide, so it cannot sustain life and gives no warning.