Longview Coal Mine

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Longview Coal Mine is a mothballed coal mine in Volga, Barbour County, West Virginia, United States.

Location

Table 1: Project-level location details

Mine Name	Location	Coordinates (WGS 84)
Longview Coal Mine	Barbour County, West Virginia, United States	39.107855, -80.156083 (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
Mothballed	–	2023	–

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
3.3	0.8	2024	Underground	Longwall	–	373.0*	238.0

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
141.0	2019	–	–	Bituminous	Met	–

Table 5: Ownership and parent company

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Owner	Parent Company	Headquarters
Allegheny Metallurgical	POSCO Holdings Inc [22.0%]; ITOCHU Corp [25.0%]; JAZ Ventures LP [10.6%]; American Metals & Coal International Inc [42.4%]	USA, Japan, South Korea, Japan

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

ROM or Saleable	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023	2024	2025
–	–	–	0	0	0	0.14	0.57	0.8	–

Reported Methane Emissions Data

Global Energy Monitor collates facility-scale methane emissions data reported by government and company sources collected in a systematic fashion. This mine is associated with the following methane emissions reports:

Table 7: Methane emissions

Reported Coal Mine Methane Emissions (thousand tonnes CO2 equivalent)	Reported Coal Mine Methane Emissions (thousand tonnes CH4)	Year of Reported Coal Mine Methane Emissions	Reported Coal Mine Methane Emissions (thousand tonnes) Reference	Reference type
9.834	816.222	2023	​	national government data

Note: The above sections were automatically generated and are based on data from the Global Coal Mine Tracker May 2026 release.

Ownership Tree

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Background

The Longview Coal Mine is a underground operation, owned by AMCI, Itochu, POSCO, and JAZ located in Barbour County, West Virginia, United States. The $450 million coking coal mine project is located near to Arch Coal’s Leer coal mine.

In January 2020, the project found backing from Japan’s Itochu Corp., as the trader joins AMCI and South Korean steelmaker Posco with plans to support coal demand in Asia.

The group under developer North Central Resources LLC (NCR) intends to ramp up shipments to global markets in 2023, with Japan, South Korea, and India currently among the largest US met coal export destinations.

In March, 2021, the Japan Bank for International Cooperation signed a loan agreement up to to USD56 million with ITC-NCR, LLC (ITC-NCR), a US company wholly owned by ITOCHU Corporation (ITOCHU), for the development of the Longview coking coal mine.

Coal Mine Boundaries and Methane Sources

Global Energy Monitor researchers have identified coal mine boundary/boundaries and potential sources of coal mine methane (CMM) for this mine. These research results can be used to drive CMM attribution and mitigation efforts, particularly when combined with remotely sensed methane plume locations and mine ownership data. Explore the results with the embedded map at the top of this page by clicking on the mine boundary polygon or the CMM placemarkers to reveal more details. A detailed description of this research can be found in Coal Mine Boundaries and Methane Sources. This data is also available as a downloadable companion dataset to the Global Coal Mine Tracker and the Global Methane Emitters Tracker.

Table SMP1: Coal mine boundaries and methane sources data

ID	Mine feature category	Mine feature subcategory	Description	Coordinates precision	Data source date
M1040.B1	mine boundary	underground	Longview Coal mine detailed underground mining boundary	extracted	Unclear - according to https://web.archive.org/web/2/https://www.wvgs.wvnet.edu/www/coal/cbmp/coalims.html, "Updates to the data set occur as new data becomes available."
M1040.P1	ventilation system	shaft	possible ventilation shaft	estimated	Jan 4 2024 and Bing satellite imagery 4/20/2023-9/19/2023

Table SMP2: Coal mine boundaries and methane sources data (continued)

Coal mine boundaries and methane sources were last researched for this mine on Oct 14, 2025

ID	Notes
M1040.B1	The boundary is the underground mining area polygon extracted from the West Virginia Geological and Economic Survey (WVGES) resource at https://web.archive.org/web/2/https://atlas.wvgs.wvnet.edu/arcgis/rest/services/Coal_Web_Mercator/All_Mining_WM/MapServer. This resource was filtered for mine_name = Longview, and the resulting polygon was simplified using distance-based simplification with a tolerance of 15m. The area of this boundary is 0.2 sq km. Important note: this mine boundary may overlap with other mine boundaries at different depths in this area and care should be taken when attempting methane source attribution.
M1040.P1	Frontier-Kemper constructors Inc, Service Shaft, Vent Shaft, & Slope Portal Longview Mine Turn-Key Projects, https://web.archive.org/web/20240305103807/https://www.frontierkemper.com/projects/mining/century-shafts-slope.html#:~:text=DATE:%20May%202022-,Frontier-Kemper%20Constructors%2C%20Inc.,Shaft%20Depth:%20880%20ft., shows the construction of a 16-ft. diameter, raise-drilled ventilation shaft. The if-modified-since response header of the page is 2024-01-04. The location is estimated due to the difficulty in triangulating satellite and the above website images.

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