Workman Creek Coal Mine

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Workman Creek Coal Mine is an operating coal mine in Raleigh County, West Virginia, United States.

Location

Table 1: Project-level location details

Mine Name	Location	Coordinates (WGS 84)
Workman Creek Coal Mine	Raleigh County, West Virginia, United States	37.89469806, -81.37808222 (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	–	2013	–

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
–	1.67	2024	Surface	–	–	75.0*	297

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
20.0	2022	25.0	Appalachia	Bituminous	Met	–

Table 5: Ownership and parent company

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Owner	Parent Company	Headquarters
Republic Energy LLC [100%]	Alpha Metallurgical Resources Inc [100.0%]	USA

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

ROM or Saleable	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023
ROM	0.96	1.32	1.51	1.52	2.1	1.81	1.65

Note: The above section was automatically generated and is based on data from the Global Coal Mine Tracker May 2025 release.

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Background

Workman Creek Coal Mine is a surface mine in Raleigh, West Virginia, United States. Republic Energy LLC operates the mine, which is owned by Alpha Metallurgical Resources Inc.

• Operator: Republic Energy LLC
• Owner: Alpha Metallurgical Resources Inc.
• Location: Raleigh, West Virginia, United States
• Coordinates: 37.89469806, -81.37808222 (Exact)
• Status: Operating
• Production: 1.687 million tonnes per annum (Mtpa) (2020)
• Total Reserves: 116 million tonnes*
• Mineable Reserves:
• Coal Type: Bituminous (Met)
• Mine Type: Surface
• Start Year: 2013
• Source of Financing:

* Combined proven and probable reserves for Pax, Republic, and Workman Creek mines.

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
M1341.B1	mine boundary	surface	Workman Creek mine boundary	extracted	2024-02-09 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 11, 2025

ID

Notes

M1341.B1

The Executive Summary 1.1 Property Description on page 9 of Alpha Metallurgical Resources, Inc. Statement of Coal Resources and Reserves for the Marfork Mining Complex, Feb 9 2024, https://web.archive.org/web/2/https://minedocs.com/26/Marfork-TR-12312023.pdf states, "The Marfork Mining Complex is comprised of the Marfork underground operations and the Workman Creek surface mines.". Also in section 12.2.1.1 Workman Creek Surface, on page 53 : "Workman Creek reserves consists of six permit areas that are adjacent to each other and are centered around the Workman Creek office and surface facility area". And, Table 12.1 Workman Creek Coal Reserves Summary, on page 53, lists the names of the 6 permit areas : Center Contour, Eagle No. 2, Long Ridge #1, Middle Ridge and Turkeyfoot. Finally, Figure 13.1 Workman Creek Surface Mine and Permit Areas Aerial View on page 63 shows the boundaries of the six permit areas. Polygons for the six permits were extracted from the West Virginia DEP's GIS Mining and Reclaimation permit boundary shapefile at https://web.archive.org/web/20250618214656/https://tagis.dep.wv.gov/home/gis%20data. Simplified versions of the polygons were then used to create the mine boundary. The area of the mine boundary is approximately 22 sq km.

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