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Hunter Valley Operations

Hunter Valley Operations (HVO) is a large open-cut coal mining complex near Singleton, New South Wales, jointly owned by Yancoal and Glencore and producing coal for export.

Huojitu Well Of Daliuta Coal Mine

Huojitu Well (活鸡兔井) is a shaft of the Daliuta Coal Mine on the border of Shaanxi province and Inner Mongolia, China, operated by China Shenhua's Shendong Coal Group.

Huolinhe South Surface Mine

The Huolinhe South Surface Mine is a large open-pit lignite coal mine in Holingol, Tongliao City, Inner Mongolia, China, and one of China's five largest open-pit coal mines.

Huozhou Coal and Electricity Group

Huozhou Coal and Electricity Group, also rendered Huozhou Coal Power Group (霍州煤电集团), is a state-owned coal mining and power generation company headquartered in Huozhou, Shanxi, China.

Hwange, Zimbabwe

Hwange, formerly Wankie, is a coal-mining town in north-western Zimbabwe built around the colliery that has worked the Hwange coalfield since 1902, and the site of the country's largest power station.

Impunzi Complex

The Impunzi Complex, also written iMpunzi, is a coal mining complex in the Witbank coalfield of Mpumalanga, South Africa, managed by Glencore and held with African Rainbow Minerals, producing export thermal coal near eMalahleni.

Inaglinsky Coal Mine 1

Inaglinsky Coal Mine 1 (Shakhta Inaglinskaya-1, Шахта Инаглинская-1) is an underground coking coal mine near Neryungri in Yakutia, Russia, commissioned by Kolmar in 2020 with a capacity of 6 million tonnes a year.

Inden Coal Mine

The Inden Coal Mine (Tagebau Inden) is an RWE open-cast lignite mine in the Rhenish lignite district of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, one of three large mines alongside Hambach and Garzweiler.

Indika Energy

Indika Energy is an Indonesian diversified energy company founded in 2000, whose core asset is a minority stake in the Kideco coal mine in East Kalimantan.

Indominco Mandiri Coal Mine

The Indominco Mandiri Coal Mine is a large open-pit thermal coal mine in East Kalimantan, Indonesia, operated by PT Indominco Mandiri and producing coal since 1997.

Inner Mongolia Erlintu Coal Mine

The Inner Mongolia Erlintu Coal Mine is an underground longwall coal mine in Ejin Horo Banner, Ordos, Inner Mongolia, China, whose approved capacity rose to 13 million tonnes per year in 2025.

Inner Mongolia Huineng Coal and Electricity Group

Inner Mongolia Huineng Coal and Electricity Group is a private Chinese energy company based in Ordos, Inner Mongolia, founded in 2001 and renamed Huineng Holding Group in 2024.

Inner Mongolia Pingzhuang Coal Industry Group

Inner Mongolia Pingzhuang Coal Industry Group, known as Pingzhuang Coal (内蒙古平庄煤业), is a state-owned coal mining company in Chifeng, Inner Mongolia, owned by China Energy Investment.

Inner Mongolia Yitai Coal

Inner Mongolia Yitai Coal Co., Ltd., established in 1997, is a Chinese company operating in Ordos. Its core business includes coal production, chemicals, and running railway transportation.

Jagannath Coal Mine

Jagannath Coal Mine, also called the Jagannath Open Cast Project, is an opencast coal mine in the Talcher Coalfield in Angul district, Odisha, India, producing coal since 1970-71.

Jaiprakash Power Ventures

Jaiprakash Power Ventures Limited (JPVL) is an Indian power generation company, incorporated in 1994, that operates 2,220 MW across one hydroelectric and two thermal plants in Uttarakhand and Madhya Pradesh.

Jänschwalde Coal Mine

The Jänschwalde Coal Mine (Tagebau Jänschwalde) was an opencast lignite mine in Brandenburg, Germany, northeast of Cottbus, that extracted about 660 million tonnes of brown coal.

Jastrzębska Spółka Węglowa

Jastrzębska Spółka Węglowa (JSW) is a Polish mining company headquartered in Jastrzębie-Zdrój, founded in 1993, that produces coking coal and coke for steelmaking, mainly supplying European steel producers.

Jayant Coal Mine

Jayant Coal Mine, also called the Jayant Opencast Project, is one of India's largest opencast coal mines, operated by Northern Coalfields Limited in Madhya Pradesh since 1977.

Jellinbah Coal Mine

Jellinbah Coal Mine, also known as Jellinbah East, is an open cut metallurgical coal mine in the Bowen Basin of central Queensland, operating since 1989.

Jharia

Jharia is a coalfield of about 400 square kilometers in Dhanbad district, Jharkhand, India, holding India's principal prime coking coal reserves and coal fires burning for over a century.

Jharia coalfield

The Jharia coalfield is a coal basin in Dhanbad district, Jharkhand, India, the country's principal source of prime coking coal, affected by fires burning underground for over a century.

Jianxin Coal (建新煤化)

Jianxin Coal, or Shaanxi Jianxin Coal Chemical Co., is a Chinese coal mining company incorporated in 2008 in Huangling County, Yan'an, Shaanxi, operating the Jianxin Coal Mine.

Jinneng Group

Jinneng Group, or Jinneng Holding Group (晋能控股集团), is a Chinese state-owned energy group in Datong, Shanxi, formed in 2020 and one of China's largest coal producers.

John L. Lewis

John L. Lewis, born John Llewellyn Lewis, was an American labor leader who led the United Mine Workers from 1920 to 1960 and founded the CIO.

Kailuan Group

Kailuan Group (开滦集团) is a Chinese state-owned coal mining and coal-chemical company in Tangshan, Hebei, tracing its origins to the Kaiping Mining Bureau of 1878.

Karaganda coal basin

The Karaganda coal basin (Қарағанды көмір бассейні) is a major hard-coal mining region around the city of Karaganda in central Kazakhstan, covering about 3,600 square kilometers and producing mainly coking coal for steelmaking.

Kellingley Colliery

Kellingley Colliery was a deep coal mine near Knottingley, Yorkshire, operated by the National Coal Board and later UK Coal, from 1965 to its closure in December 2015.

Kemper Project

The Kemper Project was a lignite gasification power plant in Kemper County, Mississippi, built by Mississippi Power; cost overruns ended gasification, and it now runs on natural gas as Plant Ratcliffe.

Kestrel Coal Mine

Kestrel Coal Mine is an underground metallurgical coal mine in Queensland's Bowen Basin, about 40 km north-east of Emerald, Australia, producing hard coking coal for export steelmaking since 1992.