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Khadia Coal Mine

Khadia Coal Mine is a large opencast coal mine in the Singrauli Coalfield, India, operated by Northern Coalfields Limited with a capacity of 14 million tonnes per year.

Khutala Coal Mine

Khutala Coal Mine, also known as Khutala Colliery, is a large underground bord-and-pillar thermal coal mine in the Witbank coalfield near Ogies, Mpumalanga, South Africa, operated by Seriti Power.

King 1 Coal Mine

King 1 Coal Mine, also known as King #1, is a surface bituminous coal mine near Morrisdale in Clearfield County, Pennsylvania, operated by King Coal Sales, Inc. since 1985.

Kinik Coal Mine

The Kınık Coal Mine is an underground lignite mine near Kınık, İzmir province, Turkey, started in 2014 and operated by Polyak Eynez, with reserves estimated around 250 million tons.

Kintap Coal Mine

The Kintap Coal Mine (Tambang Kintap) is an open-pit coal mine in South Kalimantan, Indonesia, operated by Arutmin Indonesia and opened in 2011, producing low-sulfur ecocoal.

Kirova Coal Mine

The Kirova Coal Mine, formally the S. M. Kirov Mine, is an underground coal mine in Leninsk-Kuznetsky, Russia, opened in 1935 and owned by SUEK-Kuzbass.

Kiyzassky Coal Mine

Kiyzassky Coal Mine (Кийзасский разрез) is a large surface coal mine near Chuvashka in Kemerovo Oblast, Russia, shipping coal since 2014 and reaching 70 million tonnes by 2024.

Klipspruit Coal Mine

Klipspruit Coal Mine, also known as Klipspruit Colliery, is a South African coal mine near Ogies, Mpumalanga, opened in 2006 and owned by Seriti Resources.

Kolubara B Coal Mine

The Kolubara B Coal Mine was a lignite open pit in Serbia's Kolubara basin, opened in 1952 and operated by Electric Power Industry of Serbia.

Kolubara D & E Coal Mine

The Kolubara D & E Coal Mine is an operating surface lignite mine near Lazarevac in central Serbia, owned by state utility Elektroprivreda Srbije, with reserves of 400 million tonnes.

Kolyvansky Coal Mine

Kolyvansky Coal Mine, formally AO "Razrez Kolyvansky", is a surface coal mine in Novosibirsk Oblast, Russia, producing high-grade anthracite from the Kolyvanskoye deposit in the Gorlovsky basin.

Konar Coal Mine

Konar Coal Mine is an opencast coal mine in Bokaro district, Jharkhand, India, operated by Central Coalfields Limited with proposed expansion from 4.10 to 8 MTPA.

Korporata Energjetike e Kosovës

Korporata Energjetike e Kosovës, or Kosovo Energy Corporation (KEK), is the state-owned power company of Kosovo, generating around 95 percent of its electricity from lignite.

Kosse Coal Mine

The Kosse Coal Mine is a surface lignite mine in Limestone and Robertson Counties, Texas, owned by Luminant Mining Company and the state's largest lignite producer.

Krasnobrodsky Coal Mine

The Krasnobrodsky Coal Mine (Краснобродский разрез) is a surface coal mine in Kemerovo Oblast, Russia, and the first open-pit mine in the Kuzbass region, opened in 1947.

Kuhn Ridge Coal Mine

Kuhn Ridge Coal Mine is a surface coal mine near Rupert in Greenbrier County, West Virginia, operated by Greenbrier Smokeless Coal Mining LLC and currently listed as temporarily idled.

Kulda Coal Mine

Kulda Coal Mine is an operating opencast coal mine in the Ib Valley coalfield of Sundergarh district, Odisha, India, owned by Mahanadi Coalfields Limited, a Coal India subsidiary.

Kuraloi A North Coal Mine

Kuraloi A North Coal Mine is a proposed 8 MTPA opencast coal mine in the IB Valley coalfield of Jharsuguda district, Odisha, India, allocated to Vedanta Limited in 2021.

Kusmunda Coal Mine

The Kusmunda Coal Mine is a large opencast coal mine in Korba district, Chhattisgarh, India, operated by South Eastern Coalfields; in 2023-24 it produced over 50 million tons, second in India only to Gevra.

Kuzbassrazrezugol

Kuzbassrazrezugol is a Russian coal mining company controlled by Ural Mining and Metallurgical Company that operates open-pit mines in Kemerovo Oblast, producing over 44 million tonnes in 2022.

Kuznetsk Basin

The Kuznetsk Basin, commonly shortened to Kuzbass (Кузбасс), is one of the largest coal-mining regions of Russia, in southern West Siberia, with coal first documented there in 1721.

KWB Bełchatów Coal Mine

KWB Bełchatów is Poland's largest open-pit lignite mine, located in central Poland and operated by PGE to supply the adjacent power station that produces roughly 20% of the country's electricity.

Lake Vermont Coal Mine

Lake Vermont Coal Mine is an open-cut metallurgical coal mine in Queensland's Bowen Basin near Dysart, majority-owned by Jellinbah Group and operated by Thiess, with its first shipment in February 2009.

Latrobe Valley

The Latrobe Valley is a brown coal region in Gippsland, eastern Victoria, Australia, whose open-cut mines and power stations have supplied most of the state's electricity for roughly a century.

Leiming Kehua / Huaibei Mining

Huaibei Mining Holdings Co., formerly Anhui Leimingkehua (雷鸣科化), is a Chinese state-controlled coal mining and coal-chemicals group in Anhui province, listed in Shanghai since 1999.

Lignite

Lignite, often called brown coal, is the soft, lowest-rank coal with 25%–35% carbon, high moisture, and the lowest energy content, mined near the surface and burned mainly to generate electricity.

Lipari Energy, Inc.

Lipari Energy, Inc. was a Kentucky-based producer of thermal coal mining in Central Appalachia, listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange and taken private in 2013.

Loy Yang Coal Mine

Loy Yang Coal Mine is Australia's largest brown coal mine, an open cut in Victoria's Latrobe Valley feeding the Loy Yang A and Loy Yang B power stations.

Lu'an Wangzhuang Coal Mine

Wangzhuang Coal Mine (王庄煤矿) is a large underground coal mine at Changzhi in Shanxi, China, operated by Lu'an Group and known for thick-seam mining technology trials.

Lublin Coal Basin

The Lublin Coal Basin (Lubelskie Zagłębie Węglowe, LZW) is a Carboniferous hard coal basin in eastern Poland, mined since 1982 at its only active mine, LW Bogdanka.