Boone North No. 2 Surface Coal Mine
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Boone North No. 2 Surface Coal Mine is an operating coal mine in Ashford, Boone County, West Virginia, United States.
Location
Table 1: Project-level location details
| Mine Name | Location | Coordinates (WGS 84) |
|---|---|---|
| Boone North No. 2 Surface Coal Mine | Ashford, Boone County, West Virginia, United States[1] | 38.173016, -81.712943 (exact) |
The map below shows the exact location of the coal mine:
Project Details
Table 2: Project status
| Status | Status Detail | Opening Year | Closing Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating[1] | – | 2004[1] | – |
Table 3: Operation details
| Capacity (Mtpa) | Production (Mtpa) | Year of Production | Mine Type | Mining Method | Mine Size (km2) | Mine Depth (m) | Workforce Size |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| – | 0.03575577777[2] | 2025[2] | Surface[1] | Open Pit | – | 75* | 28[2] |
Table 4: Coal resources and destination
| Total Reserves (Mt) | Year of Total Reserves Recorded | Total Resources (Mt) | Coalfield | Coal Type | Coal Grade | Primary Consumer/ Destination |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| – | – | – | Appalachia | Bituminous | Thermal & Met[3] | – |
Table 5: Ownership and parent company
| Owner | Parent Company | Headquarters |
|---|---|---|
| Eagle Horizon Resources, LLC [100.0%] | natural persons [100%] | USA |
Table 6: Historical production (unit: million tonnes per annum)
| ROM or Saleable | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| – | 0.56[1] | 0.53[1] | 0.33[1] | 0.02[1] | 0.0[1] | 0[1] | 0.24[1] | – | 0.08[2] |
Note: The above sections were automatically generated and are based on data from the Global Coal Mine Tracker August 2026 release.
Ownership Tree
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Background
Boone North No. 2 Surface Mine (MSHA ID: 4609070) is a coal mining operation in Boone County, West Virginia, owned and operated by Eagle Horizons Resources, LLC.[4]
The mine was opened in 2004 with Steven R. Mullins Excavating Inc., as its operator. In 2006, Raven Crest Contracting, LLC, began operating the mine.[4] Raven Crest was acquired by Xinergy in 2010. A few years later, Xinergy declared bankruptcy and was restructured as White Forest Resources in 2016, at which point Raven Crest became a White Forest Resources subsidiary.[5][6]
In 2025, Boone North No. 2 changed hands yet again when it was sold to current owner Eagle Horizons Resources, LLC, due to White Forest Resources filing chapter 11 bankruptcy.[7][8]
MSHA data indicates that the mine laid off more than half of its workforce in the 2nd quarter of 2019 as it shrank from 65 to 21, and scaled back its average monthly production from 40 thousand tons to 10 thousand tons. In the last quarter of 2019, average employee count went down from 21 to 9, and production further decreased to 5 thousand tons a month.[4]
Articles and Resources
Additional data
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References
- ↑ 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 "Mine Data Retrieval System". Mine Health and Safety Administration. Archived from the original on 2024-07-17. Retrieved 2025-04-18.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 https://web.archive.org/web/20260701051244/https://www.msha.gov/data-and-reports/statistics/mine-employment-and-coal-production. Archived from the original on 01 July 2026.
{{cite web}}: Check date values in:|archive-date=(help); Missing or empty|title=(help) - ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20240403005202/https://whiteforestresources.com/operations. Archived from the original on 2024-04-03.
{{cite web}}: Missing or empty|title=(help) - ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 U.S. department of labor, MSHA, Mine Data Retrieval System, accessed June 28, 2021.
- ↑ "Xinergy announces completion of acquisition of Raven Crest Mining, LLC". News Wire. Apr 29, 2010. Retrieved June 27, 2021.
- ↑ Kuykendall, Taylor (February 12, 2016). "Appalachian coal miner Xinergy emerges from bankruptcy as White Forest Resources". S&P Global Market Intelligence. Retrieved June 28, 2021.
- ↑ "White Forest Resources: $21M Partial Sale Leads to Chapter 7", ElevenFlo Research, 3 January 2026.
- ↑ "Eagle Summit Acquires Raven Crest Mining Complex", Coal Age, 22 April 2025.
