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Sindh Engro Coal Mining Company

The Sindh Engro Coal Mining Company (SECMC) is a Pakistani public-private joint venture formed in 2009 that operates an open-pit lignite mine in the Thar Coalfield, Sindh.

Singareni Collieries Company

The Singareni Collieries Company (SCCL) is a coal mining company jointly owned by the governments of Telangana and India, exploiting the Godavari Valley Coalfield, South India's only coal repository, since 1920.

Solntsevsky Coal Mine

The Solntsevsky Coal Mine (Солнцевский угольный разрез) is an open-pit brown coal mine in southwestern Sakhalin, Russia, and the largest coal operation of the East Mining Company.

South Aegean Coal Mines

The South Aegean coal mines are lignite mines near Yatağan and Milas in Muğla Province, Turkey, privatized in 2013 and supplying the Yatağan thermal power station.

South Eastern Coalfields

South Eastern Coalfields Limited (SECL) is a subsidiary of Coal India Limited headquartered in Bilaspur, Chhattisgarh, operating 57 coal mines in Chhattisgarh and Madhya Pradesh.

South Galilee Coal Project

The South Galilee Coal Project is a proposed open-cut and underground thermal coal mine near Alpha in Queensland's Galilee Basin, approved by 2015 but never granted a mining lease.

South Walker Creek Coal Mine

South Walker Creek Coal Mine is an open-cut metallurgical coal mine in Queensland's Bowen Basin, west of Nebo, operating since 1996 and owned by Stanmore Resources since 2022.

Southern Kuzbass Coal Company

Southern Kuzbass Coal Company (Южный Кузбасс) is a Russian coal mining company in Mezhdurechensk, Kemerovo Oblast – Kuzbass, owned 96 percent by Mechel-Mining and producing coking and thermal coal.

Spring Creek Coal Mine

The Spring Creek Coal Mine is a surface coal mine in Big Horn County, Montana, owned by the Navajo Nation's NTEC since 2019 and the largest coal mine in Montana.

Stanley C. Suboleski

Stanley C. Suboleski is an American mining engineer and coal executive who served at Massey Energy and is a member of the National Academy of Engineering.

Stanmore Resources

Stanmore Resources Limited, formerly Stanmore Coal Limited, is an Australian metallurgical coal mining company headquartered in Brisbane that operates Bowen Basin mines supplying global steelmakers.

Stonecreek Coal Mine

Stonecreek Coal Mine is an operating surface coal mine near New Philadelphia in Tuscarawas County, Ohio, opened in 1979 and operated by Kimble Clay & Limestone.

Suancigou Coal Mine

Suancigou Coal Mine (酸刺沟煤矿) is a large underground thermal coal mine in the Jungar Coalfield in Jungar Banner, Ordos, Inner Mongolia, China, begun in 2008 and majority-owned by Inner Mongolia Yitai Coal.

SUEK

SUEK, the Siberian Coal Energy Company, is a Russian coal, heat, and power company founded in 2001 and headquartered in Moscow, Russia's largest coal producer and exporter.

Suliyari Coal Mine

Suliyari Coal Mine, recorded as Suliyari Belwar, is an opencast coal mine in Singrauli district, Madhya Pradesh, owned by APMDC and run by Adani Enterprises.

Sunjiacha Coal Mine

Sunjiacha Coal Mine (孙家岔龙华煤矿) is a large underground longwall coal mine in Shenmu City, Shaanxi, China, with a verified capacity of 10 Mt per year.

Surat Basin

The Surat Basin is a large intracratonic sedimentary basin covering about 300,000 km² of southern Queensland and northern New South Wales, and is Queensland's principal coal seam gas province.

Surface mining

Surface mining extracts ore or coal at or close to the earth's surface by removing the overlying soil and rock, in contrast to underground mining through shafts and tunnels.

Tavan Tolgoi

Tavan Tolgoi (Таван толгой) is one of the world's largest undeveloped coking coal deposits, located in Mongolia's South Gobi about 250 km from the Chinese border.

Thar Block II Coal Mine

Thar Block II Coal Mine is Pakistan's first open-pit coal mine, a lignite mine in the Thar Coalfield, Sindh, operated by SECMC and fueling 1,320 MW of mine-mouth power plants.

Thungela Resources

Thungela Resources Limited, known as Thungela, is a South African thermal coal producer created in 2021 from Anglo American's coal operations, listed on the JSE and London Stock Exchange.

TransAlta

TransAlta is a Canadian independent power generation company headquartered in Calgary, Alberta, operating hydroelectric, wind, solar, and natural gas plants in Canada, the United States, and Australia.

Tugnuisky Coal Mine

The Tugnuisky Coal Mine is a large open-pit coal mine at Sagan-Nur in Buryatia, Russia, owned by SUEK and the largest coal producer in East Siberia.

Tunguska Basin

The Tunguska Basin (Тунгусский угольный бассейн) is a vast coal basin in Siberia, Russia, holding about 3 trillion tons of coal and ranking among the world's largest by reserves.

Turów mine

The Turów mine is a large open-pit lignite mine at Bogatynia in Lower Silesia, Poland, near the Czech and German borders, supplying the adjacent Turów power station.

Tutupan Coal Mine

The Tutupan Coal Mine is a large sub-bituminous thermal coal mine in Tanjung district, South Kalimantan, Indonesia, operated by PT Adaro Indonesia within a 360 square kilometer concession.

UK miners' strike (1984–85)

The UK miners' strike of 1984–85 was a year-long national strike by coal miners, led by Arthur Scargill's NUM against pit closures, ending in defeat in March 1985.

Ukhaa Khudag Coal Mine

Ukhaa Khudag, also known as UHG, is an open-pit coking coal mine in Umnugobi, Mongolia, part of the Tavan Tolgoi deposit, operated by Energy Resources LLC since 2009.

Ulan Complex Coal Mine

The Ulan Complex Coal Mine is a Glencore-owned coal mining operation near Ulan in central-west New South Wales, Australia, producing thermal coal mainly for export since the 1920s.

Ulan Mulun Coal Mine

Ulan Mulun Coal Mine (乌兰木伦煤矿) is an underground coal mine in Ejin Horo Banner, Ordos, Inner Mongolia, China, opened in 1992 and now producing 5.10 Mt of coal a year.