Prairie Eagle Underground Mine

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Prairie Eagle Underground Mine is an operating coal mine in Perry, Illinois, United States.

Location

Table 1: Project-level location details

Mine Name Location Coordinates (WGS 84)
Prairie Eagle Underground Mine Perry, Illinois, United States 38.07, -89.59 (exact)

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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
3.934460044[1] 2023[1] Underground 373* 267[1]

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
Illinois Basin Bituminous

Table 5: Ownership and parent company

Owner Parent Company Headquarters
Knight Hawk Coal LLC[2] CBR Investments [50%]; Arch Coal [50%] USA

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

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 https://web.archive.org/web/20240213175031/https://www.msha.gov/data-and-reports/statistics/mine-employment-and-coal-production. Archived from the original on 13 February 2024. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  2. https://www.knighthawkcoal.com/mines-facilities.html. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)

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