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Canyon Coal

Canyon Coal, formerly Umthombo Resources, is a South African coal mining company founded in 2007 and jointly owned by Mercuria and Menar Holdings, with collieries in Mpumalanga and Gauteng.

Carmichael coal mine

The Carmichael coal mine is a thermal coal mine in the Galilee Basin of central Queensland, Australia, owned by Adani's Bravus Mining, where mining began in 2020.

Caval Ridge Coal Mine

Caval Ridge Coal Mine is an open-cut metallurgical coal mine in Queensland's Bowen Basin, 17 km south of Moranbah, owned by the BHP Mitsubishi Alliance and opened in 2014.

Çayırhan Coal Mine

The Çayırhan Coal Mine (Çayırhan Linyit İşletmesi) is an underground lignite mine in Nallıhan, Ankara Province, Turkey, about 125 km north-west of Ankara, feeding the adjacent 620 MW thermal power plant.

CCU Coal and Construction

CCU Coal and Construction is a privately held American surface coal mining and heavy construction company in Coshocton, Ohio, formed by Charles C. Ungurean in 2018.

CCU Patterson Strip Mine

The CCU Patterson Strip Mine is a small surface bituminous coal mine in Harrison County, Ohio, operated by CCU Coal and Construction LLC and abandoned in 2024.

CCU Tuscarawas Strip Mine

CCU Tuscarawas Strip is an active surface bituminous coal mine near Stone Creek in Tuscarawas County, Ohio, producing coal since 1989 and peaking at 987,444 short tons in 2010.

Central Coalfields Limited

Central Coalfields Limited (CCL) is an Indian state-owned coal mining company headquartered at Ranchi, Jharkhand, formed in 1975 and wholly owned by Coal India Limited.

Cerrejón Coal Mine

Cerrejón is an open-pit thermal coal mine in La Guajira, northern Colombia, the largest in Latin America, wholly owned by Glencore since 2022 and scheduled to close in 2034.

Chahasu Coal Mine

Chahasu Coal Mine (察哈素煤矿) is a large underground coal mine in Ejin Horo Banner, Ordos, Inner Mongolia, China, with a capacity of 10 million tonnes per year.

Chaigou Coal Mine

Chaigou Coal Mine (柴沟煤矿) is an underground coal mine in Huairen County, Shuozhou, Shanxi, China, which began production in 2010 with a capacity of 8 million tonnes per year.

Chandragupta Coal Mine

Chandragupta Coal Mine, also written Chandragupt, is a greenfield opencast coal mine in Jharkhand's North Karanpura coalfield with 527 million tonnes of reserves, developed by Central Coalfields Limited.

Changchunxing Coal Mine

Changchunxing Coal Mine is an underground coal mine at Sancihe village in Zuoyun County, Datong, Shanxi, China, commissioned in 2012 and owned by Shanmei International Energy Group.

Changcun Coal Mine

Changcun Coal Mine (常村煤矿) is a large underground coal mine in Tunliu County, Changzhi, Shanxi, China, the first in China partly financed by a World Bank loan.

Chaonaoliang Coal Mine

Chaonaoliang Coal Mine (潮脑梁煤矿) is an open-pit coal mine in Ordos, Inner Mongolia, China, permitted at 8 million tonnes per year and operated by Inner Mongolia Ordos Chaonaoliang Coal Company.

Chatti Bariatu Coal Mine

The Chatti Bariatu Coal Mine is a 7 MTPA opencast coal mine in the North Karanpura coalfield, Hazaribagh district, Jharkhand, India, owned by NTPC Mining Limited.

Chengzhuang Coal Mine

Chengzhuang Coal Mine (成庄煤矿) is a large underground anthracite coal mine in Zezhou County, Jincheng, Shanxi, China, producing 8 million tonnes per year since 2020.

Chernigovets Coal Mine

Chernigovets Coal Mine, also known as Chernigovskiy, is a surface coal mine in Berezovsky, Kemerovo Oblast, Russia, operating since 1965 in the Kuznetsk Coal Basin.

Chernogorsky Coal Mine

The Chernogorsky Coal Mine (Разрез «Черногорский») is an open-pit coal mine near Chernogorsk in Khakassia, Russia, operated by SUEK and mining energy coal since 1956.

Chhal Coal Mine

Chhal Coal Mine, also called the Chhal Opencast Coal Mine Project, is an opencast coal mine operated by South Eastern Coalfields Limited in Raigarh district, Chhattisgarh, India.

China Coal Pingshuo Group

China Coal Pingshuo Group is a large coal mining company in the Pingshuo mining area of Shanxi Province, China, operating super-large surface and underground mines.

Choctaw Mine

Choctaw Mine is a surface bituminous coal mine near Parrish in Walker County, Alabama, producing metallurgical and thermal coal until mining wound down after early 2023.

Chris Cline

Chris Cline, also known as Christopher Cline, was an American coal-mining billionaire from West Virginia who founded Foresight Energy and died in a 2019 helicopter crash in the Bahamas.

Clermont Coal Mine

The Clermont Coal Mine is a large open-cut thermal coal mine near the town of Clermont in Queensland's Bowen Basin, which produced its first export coal in 2010.

Coal & Allied

Coal & Allied was an Australian coal mining company in the Hunter Valley of New South Wales, controlled by Rio Tinto and sold to Yancoal in 2017.

Coal India

Coal India Limited is an Indian state-owned coal mining holding company formed in 1975 and headquartered in Kolkata, the world's largest coal producer with roughly three quarters of India's output.

Coal mining

Coal mining, also called coal extraction, is the removal of coal from the ground for fuel and steel making; world production reached a record 9.1 billion tonnes in 2024.

Coal mining in Australia

Coal mining in Australia is the extraction of black and brown coal, chiefly in Queensland and New South Wales. Australia is the world's second largest coal exporter.

Coal mining in China

Coal mining in China is the extraction of coal, mainly bituminous, by the world's largest producer, which mined about 4.85 billion tonnes in 2025, led by Shanxi province.

Coal mining in Germany

Coal mining in Germany spans hard coal from the Ruhr and Saar, which ended in 2018, and lignite mining that continues under a phase-out to 2038.