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Luchegorsky Coal Mine
The Luchegorsky Coal Mine (Лучегорский угольный разрез) is an open-pit brown coal mine in Luchegorsk, Primorsky Krai, Russia, opened in 1973 to fuel the Primorskaya GRES power station.
Lützerath
Lützerath was a hamlet in Erkelenz, Germany, demolished in January 2023 for lignite mining after climate activists occupied it for over two years, becoming a symbol of the coal-versus-climate conflict.
LW Bogdanka Coal Mine
LW Bogdanka Coal Mine (Kopalnia LW "Bogdanka") is an underground hard coal mine in Lublin Voivodeship, Poland, the only active mine in the Lublin Coal Basin.
Madaotou Coal Mine
Madaotou Coal Mine (马道头煤矿) is an underground coal mine in Zuoyun County, Datong, Shanxi, China, run by Datong Coal Mine Group and opened in 2017 with 10 million tonnes annual capacity.
Madiliang Coal Mine
Madiliang Coal Mine (麻地梁煤矿) is an underground coal mine in Jungar Banner, Ordos, Inner Mongolia, China, known as one of China's early 5G smart mines.
Mae Moh Coal Mine
Mae Moh Coal Mine, also known as เหมืองแม่เมาะ, is Thailand's largest coal mine, an open-pit lignite mine in Lampang Province operated by EGAT to fuel the adjacent power plant.
Mahanadi Coalfields
Mahanadi Coalfields Limited, a subsidiary of Coal India, is an Indian coal-mining company headquartered in Sambalpur, Odisha, operating the Talcher and Ib Valley coalfields since 1992.
Maharashtra State Power Generation
Maharashtra State Power Generation, also known as Mahagenco or MSPGCL (महानिर्मिती), is the state-owned electricity generator of Maharashtra, India, incorporated in 2005 with about 13,880 MW of capacity.
Maiduoshan mine
Maiduoshan mine (麦垛山煤矿) is a large underground coal mine in Lingwu, Ningxia, China, approved in 2008 with a capacity of 8 million tonnes per year.
Majialiang Coal Mine
Majialiang Coal Mine (麻家梁煤矿) is a large underground coal mine in Shuozhou, Shanxi, China, owned by Datong Coal Mine Group and producing about 12 million tonnes a year.
Majiliang Coal Mine
Majiliang Coal Mine (马脊梁矿) is an underground coal mine at Majiliang in Datong, Shanxi, China, operated by Jinneng Coal Mine Group and producing bituminous thermal coal since 1952.
Mangoola Coal Mine
Mangoola Coal Mine, formerly the Anvil Hill Coal Project, is an open-cut thermal coal mine in the Hunter Valley, New South Wales, owned and operated by Glencore since 2010.
Massey Energy
Massey Energy Company was an American bituminous coal producer headquartered in Richmond, Virginia, best known for the 2010 Upper Big Branch mine explosion that killed 29 miners.
Matla Coal Mine
Matla Coal Mine is an underground thermal coal mine near Kriel in Mpumalanga, South Africa, operated by Exxaro and supplying Eskom's Matla Power Station by conveyor since 1979.
Maules Creek Coal Mine
The Maules Creek Coal Mine is an open-cut thermal coal mine in Leard State Forest in New South Wales, Australia, owned by Whitehaven Coal and producing up to 13 million tonnes a year since 2014.
Meandu Coal Mine
Meandu Coal Mine is an open-cut thermal coal mine near Kingaroy in Queensland, Australia, supplying the adjacent Tarong and Tarong North power stations since 1984.
Mechel
Mechel is a Russian vertically integrated mining and metals company producing coal, iron ore, coke, steel, and power, which grew from a Siberian coal-trading operation founded in the early 1990s.
Megalopolis Lignite Mines
Megalopolis lignite mines: open-pit lignite mines of the Megalopolis Basin, Peloponnese, Greece, worked by PPC since 1969 (434 Mt reserves, four mines: Thoknia, Marathousa, Kyparissia, Choremi) and known for the Marathousa 1 Lower Palaeolithic site.
Mettiki Coal
Mettiki Coal is an underground longwall coal-mining complex of Alliance Resource Partners, pairing the Mountain View mine in Tucker County, West Virginia with a preparation plant near Oakland, Maryland.
Mettiki General Coal Mine
The Mettiki General Coal Mine was a large underground coal mine in Garrett County, Maryland, which operated from 1977 until its reserves were exhausted in 2006.
MIBRAG
MIBRAG, until 2023 formally the Mitteldeutsche Braunkohlengesellschaft, is a German lignite mining company based in Zeitz, Saxony-Anhalt, operating the Central German district's last two large open pits, Profen and Vereinigtes Schleenhain.
Micare Coal Mine
Micare Coal Mine, also known as Minera Carbonífera Río Escondido or MICARE, is a coal mining complex in Nava, Coahuila, Mexico, founded in 1977 and privatized in 1992.
Mine rescue
Mine rescue is the specialized emergency response discipline in which trained teams enter underground mines after explosions, fires, floods, or collapses to evacuate trapped miners, typically wearing breathing apparatus.
Mini Maritsa Iztok
Mini Maritsa Iztok (Мини Марица-изток ЕАД) is a wholly state-owned Bulgarian company and the country's largest coal miner, extracting lignite in Stara Zagora Province for the Maritsa East power plants.
Moatize Coal Mine
The Moatize Coal Mine is a large open-cut coal mine in Tete Province, Mozambique, opened by Vale in 2011 and sold to India's Jindal Group in 2022.
Monongah mining disaster
The Monongah mining disaster was a coal mine explosion on December 6, 1907, at the Fairmont Coal Company mines in Monongah, West Virginia, killing at least 361 miners.
Moolarben Coal Mine
The Moolarben Coal Mine is a large open-cut and underground thermal coal mine in New South Wales, Australia, located about 40 kilometers north of Mudgee, operated by Yancoal Australia.
Moranbah South Coal Project
The Moranbah South Coal Project is a proposed underground coking coal mine in Queensland's Bowen Basin, approved in 2014 and held by Anglo American and Exxaro but never developed.
Mount Arthur Coal Mine
Mount Arthur Coal Mine, commonly Mt Arthur Coal, is BHP's open-cut thermal coal mine near Muswellbrook in New South Wales, the largest coal mine in the state.
Mount Pleasant Coal Mine
The Mount Pleasant Coal Mine is an open-cut thermal coal mine in the Upper Hunter Valley of New South Wales, near Muswellbrook, owned and operated by MACH Energy Australia.