Gibson South Coal Mine

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Gibson South Coal Mine is an operating coal mine in Princeton, Indiana, United States.

Location

Table 1: Project-level location details

Mine Name	Location	Coordinates (WGS 84)
Gibson South Coal Mine	Princeton, Indiana, United States	38.306456, -87.698623 (exact)

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Project Details

Table 2: Project status

Status	Status Detail	Opening Year	Closing Year
Operating	–	2014	–

Table 3: Operation details

Capacity (Mtpa)	Production (Mtpa)	Year of Production	Mine Type	Mining Method	Mine Size (km2)	Mine Depth (m)	Workforce Size
–	5.7	2024	Underground	Bord and Pillar	–	128.0	327

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
40.0	2024	4.3	Illinois Basin	Bituminous	Thermal	–

Table 5: Ownership and parent company

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Owner	Parent Company	Headquarters
Gibson County Coal LLC [100%]	Alliance Resource Partners LP [99.0%]; other unknown/mixed entity types [0.0%]	USA

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

ROM or Saleable	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023
ROM	6	6.9	5.5	2.3	3.3	5.3	4.81

Note: The above section was automatically generated and is based on data from the Global Coal Mine Tracker May 2025 release.

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Methane Plumes Detected Nearby

Global Energy Monitor researchers analyze satellite-detected methane plumes in order to determine whether they have been observed at or near the site of GEM energy assets. The satellite data provider creates imagery of individual methane plumes and estimates their emission rates at the time of observation. GEM has reviewed many of these plume detections against Google Earth imagery and GEM’s own energy infrastructure tracker data. The following table lists methane plumes which are associated with the energy asset or facility based on distance and manual review. (A full description of the analysis process is available in the Global Methane Emitters Tracker methodology wiki page.)

Table M1: Plume details

For additional details on this individual plume identification and others, see the Global Methane Emitters Tracker.

Observation date	Satellite data provider	Location of plume origin	Methane emissions rate	Additional plume information
2025-04-22T17:09:53+00	CarbonMapper, tan20250422t170953c00s4001-A	38.30617, -87.7089	1193.791 kg/hr	Indiana State Methane Observation 2025-04-22, 1

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