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Mae Moh Coal Mine is an operating coal mine in Mae Moh, Lampang, Thailand, Thailand.

Location

Table 1: Project-level location details

Mine Name Location Coordinates (WGS 84)
Mae Moh Coal Mine Mae Moh, Lampang, Thailand, Thailand 18.31471, 99.71994 (exact)

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Project Details

Table 2: Project status

Status Status Detail Opening Year Closing Year
Operating 1978

Table 3: Operation details

Capacity (Mtpa) Production (Mtpa) Year of Production Mine Type Mining Method Mine Size (km2) Mine Depth (m) Workforce Size
13.659[1] 2022[1] Underground & Surface Mixed 135 500 1000[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
825 Mae Moh Lignite Thermal Mae Moh coal plant

Table 5: Ownership and parent company

Owner Parent Company Headquarters
Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand (EGAT) Thailand

Note: The above section was automatically generated and is based on data from the GEM April 2024 Global Coal Mine Tracker dataset.

Background

The Mae Moh coal mine is a lignite mine, owned and operated by Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand (EGAT) in the mountains of Lampang province in northern Thailand.

The mine supplies coal to the Mae Moh coal plant. The mine opened in 1978 and is the largest coal mine Thailand. The mine previously produced more than 20 million tonnes each per.[3] On October 26, 2019, the company announced that the mine is preparing for closure, though thyssenkrupp, an industrial manufacturer, previously planned to supply a new continuous miner system in 2020, and it remains operation as of November 2020.[4][5]Currently, the mine supplies 40,000 tonnes of lignite a day to the Mae Moh coal plant.[6]

Articles and Resources

Additional data

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References

  1. 1.0 1.1 (PDF) https://web.archive.org/web/20230705090642/https://www.egat.co.th/home/en/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/EGAT-Annual-Report-2022-EN_2023-06-23.pdf. Archived from the original (PDF) on 05 July 2023. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |archive-date= (help); Missing or empty |title= (help)
  2. https://www.sahakol.com/press/rising-up-regional-coal-mine/. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  3. Lin Shi and Glenn J. Wallace, "The Mineral Industry of Thailand", September 2009.
  4. 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 4.6 4.7 Egat prepares to shut down Mae Moh mine, Bangkok Post, October 26, 2019
  5. thyssenkrupp, Barracuda goes to Thailand, company website,8 October,2018.
  6. "The Grievous Mae Moh Coal Power Plant" ADB, February 2, 2008.
  7. 7.0 7.1 Shitoku ShibataNay ZarlinHideki ShimadaAkihiro HamanakaTakashi SasaokaKikuo MatsuiPipat Laowattanabandit, Preliminary Study on Design of Longwall Mining from Final Highwall at Mae Moh Lignite Mine in Thailand, Mine Planning and Equipment Selection, 2014: 227-234.
  8. https://www.sahakol.com/press/rising-up-regional-coal-mine/ Rising Up Regional Coal Mine], Sahakol, Press Release, 2019