Mountaineer II Coal Mine

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Mountaineer II Coal Mine is an operating coal mine in Sharples, Logan County, West Virginia, United States.

Location

Table 1: Project-level location details

Mine Name	Location	Coordinates (WGS 84)
Mountaineer II Coal Mine	Boone County, West Virginia, United States	37.91, -81.8 (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
Operating	–	2004	–

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
–	1.12	2025	Underground	Bord and Pillar	154.58	373.0*	846.0

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
17.0	2022	–	Appalachia	Bituminous	Met	–

Table 5: Ownership and parent company

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Owner	Parent Company	Headquarters
Mingo Logan Coal LLC	Core Natural Resources Inc	USA

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

ROM or Saleable	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023	2024	2025
–	1.51	1.76	1.26	0.89	0.87	0.75	1.03	–	1.12

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
16.21	1345.432	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

This ownership tree is part of the Global Energy Ownership Tracker, a project of Global Energy Monitor.

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
M1048.B1	mine boundary	underground	Mountaineer II coal mine detailed underground mining area 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."'
M1048.P1	ventilation system	vent	ventilation shaft	extracted	2024-04-01 00:00:00
M1048.P2	ventilation system	vent	ventilation shaft	extracted	2024-04-01 00:00:00
M1048.P3	ventilation system	shaft	ventilation shaft	extracted	2024-04-01 00:00:00

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

Coal mine boundaries and methane sources were last researched for this mine on Sep 18, 2025

ID	Notes
M1048.B1	The boundary is the complex 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 containing MOUNTAINEER II ALMA MINE. The polygon was deholed and simplified using distance-based simplification with a tolerance of 25m. The area of the final boundary is 19 sq km. The mine mines the Powellton seam. Important note: the following mine boundaries overlap the mine boundary and care should be taken when attempting methane source attribution: COALBURG NO 3 (Little_Coalburg seam), JEAN (Winifrede seam), BUFFALO NO 11 (Winifrede seam), MINGO-LOGAN MOUNTAINEER II CG MINE (Number_2_Gas seam), ROBIN NO 2 (Upper_5_Block seam), GUT FORK (Fire_Clay seam), BETTY (Fire_Clay seam), NO 6 (Fire_Clay seam), ROBIN NO 1 (Fire_Clay seam), HOLDRED COLLIERIES (Fire_Clay seam), BOONE COUNTY COAL NO 1 (Fire_Clay seam), BOONE COUNTY COAL NO 9 (Fire_Clay seam), BEND BRANCH NO 3 (Fire_Clay seam), BEND BRANCH NO 4 (Fire_Clay seam)
M1048.P1	Identified visually from Google Earth Pro satellite imagery.
M1048.P2	Identified visually from Google Earth Pro satellite imagery.
M1048.P3	Identified visually from Google Earth Pro satellite imagery.

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
2025-01-22T16:27:42+00	CarbonMapper, tan20250122t162742c00s4001-F	37.90261, -81.7897	713.1824 kg/hr	West Virginia State Methane Observation 2025-01-22, 1

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