Sewell Mine B Coal Mine

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Sewell Mine B Coal Mine is an operating coal mine in Davy, McDowell County, West Virginia, United States.

Location

Table 1: Project-level location details


Mine Name	Location	Coordinates (WGS 84)
Sewell Mine B Coal Mine	West Virginia, United States	37.506111, -81.623611 (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^[1]	–	1980^[1]	–

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
–	0.0381017574^[2]	2025^[2]	Underground^[1]	–	–	373*	30^[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
–	–	–	Appalachia	Bituminous^[1]	Met	–

Table 5: Ownership and parent company

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Owner	Parent Company	Headquarters
Raw Coal Mining Co Inc [100.0%]^[1]	natural persons [100%]	USA

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


ROM or Saleable	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023	2024	2025
–	0.14^[1]	0.08^[1]	0.11^[1]	0.09^[1]	0.08^[1]	0.08^[1]	0.06^[1]	–	0.04^[2]

Note: The above sections were automatically generated and are based on data from the Global Coal Mine Tracker August 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
M2694.B2	mine boundary	underground	Sewell Mine B 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."
M2694.P1	ventilation system	shaft	ventilation system	extracted	2020-11-08 00:00:00
M2694.P2	other	slope access or production shaft	mine production portal	extracted	2020-11-08 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 10, 2025
ID	Notes
M2694.B2	This boundary was 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, which was filtered for mine_name RAW SEWELL MINE B. The resulting polygon adjacent to the mine location was simplified using distance-based simplification with a tolerance of 15m. The area of this boundary is 2 sq km. The mine mines the Sewell seam. Important note: the following mine boundaries overlap the mine boundary and care should be taken when attempting methane source attribution: Unknown Mine C (Sewell seam), LITTLE DARRELL NO 1 (Iaeger seam)
M2694.P1	Visually identified using Google Earth Pro satellite imagery.
M2694.P2	Visually identified using Google Earth Pro satellite imagery.

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Additional data

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