Logan Coal Complex

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Logan Coal Complex is an operating coal mine in Logan County, Wyoming County, West Virginia, United States.

Location

Table 1: Project-level location details

Mine Name	Location	Coordinates (WGS 84)
Logan Coal Complex	Logan County, Wyoming County, West Virginia, United States	37.973681, -82.017534 (approximate)

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Project Details

Table 2: Project status

Status	Status Detail	Opening Year	Closing Year
Operating	–	–	–

Table 3: Operation details

Note: The asterisk (*) signifies that the value is a GEM estimated figure.

Capacity (Mtpa)	Production (Mtpa)	Year of Production	Mine Type	Mining Method	Mine Size (km2)	Mine Depth (m)	Workforce Size
–	2.1	2022	Underground & Surface	Mixed	127.35	75.0*	266*

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
62.0	2024	654.0	Appalachia	Bituminous	Thermal & Met	–

Table 5: Ownership and parent company

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Owner	Parent Company	Headquarters
Greenbrier Minerals [100%]	Coronado Global Resources Inc [100.0%]	Australia

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

ROM or Saleable	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023
ROM	2.6	2.6	2.7	1.6	1.9	2.1	2.2

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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Background

The Logan County Mining Complex is group of surface and underground coal mines is owned by Coronado Global and produces 1.6 million tonnes per annum in West Virginia, United States. The mine was previously owned by Massey Energy and includes one surface mine and two underground room and pillar mines. The Bandmill preparation plant has a processing capacity of 1,800 tons per hour.

• Operator: Greenbrier Minerals
• Parent company: Coronado Global
• Location: Logan County, West Virgina
• GPS coordinates: 37.973681, -82.017534
• Production: 1.6 million tonnes
• Type of coal: Met and Thermal coal
• Mine type: Underground, Surface
• Equipment: Highwall
• Number of employees:
• Established/Acquired: 1998
• Recoverable Reserves: 58 Mt (proven) 28Mt (probable)

Fires

On January 19, 2006, two miners died at the Aracoma Alma No. 1 Mine in Logan County, West Virginia, after a conveyor belt caught fire, leading to the Aracoma Alma Mine accident. The widows of the miners filed suit against Massey Energy, on the grounds that the company should have anticipated that the lack of an air control wall would allow smoke to fill escape routes. In the complaint, the women accused Massey CEO Don Blankenship of "personally engendering a corporate attitude of indifference and hostility towards safety measures which stood in the way of profit." The lawsuit was settled on November 17, 2008, although the terms were not disclosed. Seven miners who were injured in the same fire have also filed suit against Massey, seeking punitive damages for their injuries.

On April 15, 2009, a federal judge approved a plea deal with Massey subsidiary Aracoma Coal Company. Aracoma pleaded guilty to 10 criminal charges for the 2006 fire. The company was fined $2.5 million and must also pay $1.7 million for violations cited by the federal Mine Safety and Health Administration. The plea deal included a provision preventing Massey and its officials from being prosecuted.

In August 2009 and again in June 2010, a fire broke out at Massey’s Bandmill coal preparation plant. The local fire chief Scott Beckett said the fires are "suspicious”: “A fire twice in a year in a $75 million building means something isn’t right. The fire marshal will go in and do a complete investigation.” The June fire broke out on one of the top two floors of the 12-story plant, which is idled while being rebuilt after the devastating fire in August 2009.

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