China Coal Begins Construction of 20 Million-Ton Mine in Shanxi Province

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Researched by Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas)--China National Coal Energy Group Corporation (Beijing), also known as China Coal, has begun construction of the Pingsuo Donglutian coal mine in central China's Shanxi province. The mine is located in the northern part of the Ningwu coalfield, covering 48.73 square kilometers in Suozhou City. The mine has a thick coal seam, good coal quality, shallow coverage and simple geologic structure, with a total reserve of about 1.85 billion metric tons.

The project has been listed as a key project in the country's Eleventh Five-Year Plan for the coal industry, and it is also an important part of the 100 million-ton Pingsuo Mining Zone proposed by China Coal. China Coal Pingsuo Coal Industry Company Limited (CCPCIC) (Suozhou), a subsidiary of China Coal, is responsible for the construction as well as the future operation of the project.

Construction comprises a 20 million-metric-ton open coal mine, a 20 million-metric-ton coal-selection plant and a 27-kilometer railway. The mine's expected service life will be 75 years, and the designed annual transportation capacity of the railway is 32.5 million tons. According to the project's schedule, the project will be competed in three years and achieve its designed capacity in two years.

On the same day, CCPCIC also signed a joint venture agreement with Shan International Energy Group Corporation Limited (Taiyuan, Shanxi) to build two 300-megawatt circulating-fluidized-bed combined-cycle units by utilizing coal gangue in Pingsuo.

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