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Coal mining in India
Coal mining in India is the extraction of coal, the country's primary energy source, begun commercially in 1774, nationalized in the 1970s, and reopened to private operators in 2020.
Coal mining in Indonesia
Coal mining in Indonesia is mostly open-pit extraction of low- and medium-rank thermal coal in Kalimantan and Sumatra, making it the world's largest steam coal exporter.
Coal mining in South Africa
Coal mining in South Africa is concentrated in Mpumalanga's Witbank and Highveld coalfields; the country was the world's seventh-largest coal producer in 2023, exporting most coal through Richards Bay.
Coal mining in the United Kingdom
Coal mining in the United Kingdom, once the country's staple industry, peaked at 292 million tonnes in 1913 and has declined to 425 thousand tonnes in 2024.
Coal mining in the United States
Coal mining in the United States extracts coal across the Appalachian, Interior, and Western regions, led by Wyoming; production peaked in 2008 and has declined as power generation shifted to natural gas and renewables.
Coal phase-out
A coal phase-out is a policy of ending coal use, most often coal-fired power generation, through plant closures, replacement generation, and support for workers and coal regions.
Coal Wars
The Coal Wars were a series of violent labor conflicts in the American coalfields from the 1890s through the early 1930s, fought by unionizing miners against mine operators.
Complexul Energetic Oltenia
Complexul Energetic Oltenia (CE Oltenia) is a Romanian state-owned company founded in 2012 that mines lignite in the Oltenia basin and generates electricity, Romania's main lignite producer, now restructuring away from coal toward gas and renewables.
CONSOL Energy
CONSOL Energy was an American coal producer and exporter headquartered in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania, tracing its mining operations to 1864 and merging with Arch Resources in January 2025 to form Core Natural Resources.
Continuous miner
A continuous miner is an underground mining machine that cuts coal or soft rock from the face and loads it onto an onboard conveyor without blasting.
Cordero Rojo Coal Mine
The Cordero Rojo Coal Mine is a surface thermal coal mine in Campbell County, Wyoming, about 22 miles south of Gillette, owned by the Navajo Transitional Energy Company.
Coronado Global Resources
Coronado Global Resources is a metallurgical coal producer and exporter with mining operations in Queensland, Australia and the Central Appalachian region of the United States, listed on the ASX.
Courrières mine disaster
The Courrières mine disaster was a coal dust explosion on 10 March 1906 in the Pas-de-Calais coalfield of northern France, killing 1,099 miners, the worst mining accident in European history.
Curragh Coal Mine
The Curragh Coal Mine is a large open cut and underground coal mine in the Bowen Basin of Central Queensland, operating since 1983 and owned by Coronado Global Resources.
Dafanpu Coal Mine
The Dafanpu Coal Mine (大饭铺煤矿) is an underground thermal coal mine in Jungar Banner, Ordos City, Inner Mongolia, China, with an annual capacity of 6.5 million tonnes.
Dafosi Coal Mine
The Dafosi Coal Mine (大佛寺煤矿) is a large underground coal mine in Binzhou, Shaanxi Province, China, which began production in 2006 and produces about 8 million tonnes a year.
Dahaize Coal Mine
Dahaize Coal Mine (大海则煤矿) is a large underground coal mine in Yulin, Shaanxi, China, owned by China Coal Energy with a capacity of 20 million tonnes yearly.
Dajing Mining Area No. 2 Mine
Dajing Mining Area No. 2 Mine is an underground coal mine in Qitai County, Xinjiang, China, planned to produce 6 million tonnes of coal per year.
Daliuta Coal Mine
Daliuta Coal Mine (大柳塔煤矿) is a large longwall underground coal mine in Shenmu, Shaanxi, China, operated by China Shenhua Energy since 1996 and ranked the world's third largest underground coal mine on 2003 output.
Dananhu No. 1 Coal Mine
Dananhu No. 1 Coal Mine (大南湖一号矿井) is an underground coal mine in Hami, Xinjiang, China, with an approved capacity of 10 million tonnes per year.
Dananhu No. 2 Surface Mine
Dananhu No. 2 Surface Mine, also called Dananhu West No. 2, is a large open-pit thermal coal mine in Hami, Xinjiang, China, begun in 2017.
Dananhu No. 7 Coal Mine
Dananhu No. 7 Coal Mine (大南湖七号煤矿) is an underground coal mine in Hami, Xinjiang, China, operated by Guotou (SDIC) Hami Energy with a 12-million-tonne annual capacity.
Daunia Coal Mine
Daunia Coal Mine is an open cut metallurgical coal mine in Queensland's Bowen Basin, near Moranbah, opened in 2013 and wholly owned by Whitehaven Coal since 2024.
Dawson Complex
The Dawson Complex is an open-cut steelmaking coal mine in the Dawson Valley, Bowen Basin, Central Queensland, owned by Anglo American and Mitsui and operating since 1961.
Denisovsky Vostochny Coal Mine
Denisovsky Vostochny Coal Mine (шахта «Восточная Денисовская») is an underground coking coal mine in the Neryungri District of Yakutia, Russia, commissioned in 2021 with a capacity of 4 million tonnes per year.
Dhirauli Coal Mine
Dhirauli Coal Mine is a commercial coal mine in the Singrauli Coalfield, Madhya Pradesh, India, won by an Adani subsidiary in 2020 with 6.5 MTPA capacity.
Dingji Coal Mine
Dingji Coal Mine (丁集煤矿) is an underground coal mine in Fengtai County, Huainan, Anhui, China, begun in 2004 and producing up to 6 million tonnes of coal per year.
Dipka Coal Mine
Dipka Coal Mine, also known as the Dipka Opencast Project, is a large opencast coal mine in Korba district, Chhattisgarh, India, operated by South Eastern Coalfields Limited.
Don Blankenship
Don Blankenship, also known as Donald Leon Blankenship, is an American coal executive who led Massey Energy and was convicted after the 2010 Upper Big Branch explosion.
Dongtan Coal Mine
Dongtan Coal Mine (东滩煤矿) is an underground coal mine in Zoucheng, Shandong, China, owned by Yanzhou Coal Mining Company, in commercial production since 1989 with a capacity of 7.5 million tonnes a year.