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Mt Owen (coal mine)

Mt Owen is an open-cut coal mine in the Upper Hunter Valley of New South Wales, Australia, 20 kilometers north of Singleton, producing thermal and semi-soft metallurgical coal for export.

Mt Thorley Warkworth Coal Mine

Mount Thorley Warkworth, formed from the Mount Thorley and Warkworth mines in 2004, is an open-cut coal operation near Singleton, New South Wales, producing coking and thermal coal.

Murray Energy

Murray Energy, founded by Robert E. Murray in Ohio in 1988, grew into the largest privately held coal company in the United States before filing for bankruptcy in 2019.

Murray River Coal Mine

The Murray River Coal Mine is a proposed underground metallurgical coal mine near Tumbler Ridge in northeastern British Columbia, developed by HD Mining, approved in 2015 and 2017.

Nariin Sukhait Coal Mine

The Nariin Sukhait coal mine (Nariinsukhait; Mongolian: Нарийнсухайтын уурхай) is a coal mine in Umnugovi province, southern Mongolia, operated by Mongolyn Alt (MAK) and exporting coal since 2008.

Narrabri Coal Mine

The Narrabri Coal Mine is an underground thermal coal mine in the Gunnedah Basin of New South Wales, Australia, majority owned by Whitehaven Coal and employing around 500 people.

Nástup-Tušimice Coal Mine

The Nástup-Tušimice Coal Mine (Doly Nástup Tušimice) is a surface brown coal mine in the Ústí Region of the Czech Republic, operated by Severočeské doly.

National Coal Board

The National Coal Board (NCB) was the statutory corporation that owned and ran Britain's nationalized coal-mining industry from 1 January 1947, becoming British Coal in 1987.

National Union of Mineworkers

The National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) is a British trade union for coal miners, established in 1945 from the Miners' Federation of Great Britain ahead of coal nationalisation in 1947.

Navajo Transitional Energy Company

Navajo Transitional Energy Company (NTEC) is a coal mining company wholly owned by the Navajo Nation, created in 2013 and owner of the Navajo Mine in New Mexico.

New Acland Coal Mine

The New Acland Coal Mine is an open-cut thermal coal mine near Oakey on Queensland's Darling Downs, operated by New Hope Group subsidiary New Acland Coal since 2002.

New Vaal Coal Mine

New Vaal Coal Mine is a large opencast coal mine near Vereeniging, South Africa, and the sole coal supplier to Eskom's adjacent Lethabo Power Station.

Newlands Coal Mine

The Newlands Coal Mine is a former thermal and metallurgical coal mine in Queensland's Bowen Basin, operated by Glencore, which produced coal from 1983 to 2023.

Nigahi Coal Mine

The Nigahi Coal Mine, formally the Nigahi Opencast Project, is a large opencast coal mine in Singrauli district, Madhya Pradesh, India, operated by Northern Coalfields Limited.

Ningtiaota Coal Mine

Ningtiaota Coal Mine (柠条塔煤矿) is a large underground coal mine in Shenmu, Shaanxi, China, operated by Shaanxi Coal Group with a capacity of 20 million tonnes per year.

Ningxia Hongliu Coal Mine

Ningxia Hongliu Coal Mine (红柳煤矿) is a large underground coal mine in Majiatan Town, Lingwu City, Ningxia, China, producing 8 million tonnes of non-caking bituminous coal per year.

NLC India Limited

NLC India Limited, formerly Neyveli Lignite Corporation, is a Navratna government-owned Indian company founded in 1956 to mine Neyveli lignite and generate power, now also in renewables and coal.

Nochten Coal Mine

Nochten Coal Mine (German: Tagebau Nochten) is a large lignite opencast mine in Saxony, eastern Germany, operated by LEAG since 1973 and the main supplier of the Boxberg power plant.

North Antelope Rochelle Coal Mine

The North Antelope Rochelle Coal Mine is a surface coal mine in Wyoming's Powder River Basin, operated by Peabody Energy and the largest coal producer in the United States.

North Eastern Coalfields

North Eastern Coalfields is a coal-producing unit of Coal India Limited, headquartered at Margherita in Tinsukia district, Assam, that directly controls the coal mines of Assam and neighboring areas.

North Queensland Export Terminal

The North Queensland Export Terminal is a coal export terminal at the Port of Abbot Point, Queensland, opened in 1984 with a capacity of 50 million tonnes a year.

Northern Coalfields

Northern Coalfields Limited, or NCL, is an Indian state-owned coal mining company headquartered at Singrauli, Madhya Pradesh, operating ten mechanized opencast mines across Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh.

Oaky Creek Coal Mine

Oaky Creek Coal is an underground metallurgical coal mine in Queensland's Bowen Basin, operated by Glencore and the first in Australia to fully automate its longwall.

Okinawa Electric Power Company

The Okinawa Electric Power Company, Incorporated (沖縄電力, OEPC) is the vertically integrated electric utility serving Japan's Okinawa Prefecture, founded in 1972 and privatized in 1988. Its isolated grid runs mainly on coal, LNG, and oil.

Olive Downs Coal Mine

The Olive Downs Coal Mine is an open-cut coking coal mine in Queensland's Bowen Basin, about 40 km from Moranbah, owned by Pembroke Resources and mining since 2023.

Ombilin Coal Mining Heritage of Sawahlunto

Ombilin Coal Mining Heritage of Sawahlunto, a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2019, is a serial Dutch colonial industrial ensemble in West Sumatra: mines, company town, 155 km rack railway, and Emmahaven port, worked partly by convict orang rantai labour.

Optimum Coal Mine

Optimum Coal Mine is a large opencast and underground thermal coal mine at Pullenshope in Mpumalanga, South Africa, opened in 1971 to supply Hendrina Power Station.

Pachhwara (North) Coal Mine

Pachhwara (North) Coal Mine is an opencast coal mine in the Rajmahal coalfield in Pakur district, Jharkhand, India, owned by WBPDCL and reopened in 2019 after reallocation.

Pachhwara Central Coal Mine

Pachhwara Central Coal Mine is a captive open-cast coal mine in Pakur district, Jharkhand, India, owned by Punjab State Power Corporation Limited in the Rajmahal coalfield.

Pakri Barwadih Coal Mine

The Pakri Barwadih Coal Mine is an opencast captive coal mine in Hazaribagh district, Jharkhand, India, operated by NTPC, which was allotted the block in October 2004.