Buchanan 1 Coal Mine

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Buchanan #1 Coal Mine is an operating coal mine in Raven, Virginia, United States.

Location

Table 1: Project-level location details

Mine Name	Location	Coordinates (WGS 84)
Buchanan #1 Coal Mine	Raven, Virginia, United States	37.211246, -81.902729 (exact)

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Project Details

Table 2: Project status

Status	Status Detail	Opening Year	Closing Year
Operating	–	1987	–

Table 3: Operation details

Capacity (Mtpa)	Production (Mtpa)	Year of Production	Mine Type	Mining Method	Mine Size (km2)	Mine Depth (m)	Workforce Size
–	3.593358597	2023	Underground	Longwall	–	564	583

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
93	2022	–	Atlantic Coast	Bituminous	Met	–

Table 5: Ownership and parent company

Owner	Parent Company	Headquarters
Coronado Global Resources Inc	Coronado Global	Australia

Table 6: Historical production (unit: million tonnes per annum)

ROM or Saleable	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023
ROM	4.9	4.7	4.5	3.4	4.4	3.9	3.6

Note: The above section was automatically generated and is based on data from the Global Coal Mine Tracker April 2024 release and the September and December supplements.

Background

Buchanan Mine #1 is an underground coal mines, operated by Coronado Coal Company, producing 5.1 million short tons per annum, in Buchanan County, Virginia, United States. The mine returned to production on March 17, 2008, after being idled on July 9, 2007 because of a roof failure.

The mine was previously owned by Consolidation Coal Company, owned by CONSOL Energy. On March 14, 2011, CONSOL Energy announced it will spend $200 million on a treatment system for wastewater from three West Virginia coal mines, and pay the state and federal governments a total of $6 million to settle hundreds of alleged violations of the Clean Water Act. The federal fines, which will be split between the EPA and the state, totaled $5.5 million. Consol also agreed to pay the West Virginia Division of Natural Resources $500,000 for the damage to Dunkard Creek, a Monongahela River tributary that runs for 43 miles along the Pennsylvania-West Virginia border.

Though it denies its operations were responsible for the fish kill, Consol stopped discharging wastewater from its Blacksville 2 Mine after a September 2009 bloom of toxic golden algae killed countless fish, mussels, salamanders and other aquatic life. Investigators concluded that pollutants called total dissolved solids created conditions that helped that algae bloom flourish, choking off oxygen to the aquatic creatures. Although high levels of TDS have not been labeled a threat to human health, they can affect the taste and smell and drinking water.

EPA Region 3 Administrator Shawn Garvin said Consol's new network of pipelines and the reverse osmosis treatment plant it is building near Mannington will keep nearly 100 million pounds of TDS, including salts, out of the watershed each year. The system will treat water from the Blacksville 2 Mine, Loveridge 22 Mine and Robinson Run 95 Mine, and improve the overall health of rivers and streams. Consol's treatment plant must be online by May 2013 under the agreement. When finished, the plant should be able to treat 3,500 gallons of mine water per minute, eliminating an anticipated 95 percent of the pollutants. Consol is also planning to build a similar $100 million treatment facility for its Buchanan Mine 1 in Virginia.

The settlement covers alleged violations at six Consol operations over the past four years. The government cited chronic problems with chloride discharges into the Monongahela watershed from the Blacksville, Loveridge, Robinson Run and Four States mines, and into the Ohio River from the Shoemaker and Windsor mines.

• MSHA ID: 4404856
• Operator: Coronado Coal Company
• Location: Raven, Buchanan, Virginia, United States
• Coordinates,: 37.211246, -81.902729
• Production (short tons): 5,188,441 (2018)
• Reserves: 101.6 Million tonnes (Proven and Probable, 2018) Mining Data Online, "Buchanan Mine", Mining Data website, Accessed May 2021 </ref>
• Resources: 227.7 Million tonnes (Measured and Indicated, 2018)
• Coal Type: Bituminous (Met)
• Mining Method: Underground
• Mine Status: Operating
• Average No. of Employees: 440
• Union:

External links

• "Major U.S. Coal Mines," Energy Information Administration

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