The top 10 coal mines in the world

1. Rochester coal mine, USA: more than 2.3 billion tons of coal can be mined.

Located in the powder river basin of Wyoming, the rochester coal mine in the United States is currently the largest recoverable coal mine in the world. It belongs to the open-pit mine, which can extract more than 2.3 billion tons of coal and is one of the largest coal fields in the world. It is owned by Peabody energy.

2. Halusu opencast coal mine, China: more than 1.7 billion tons can be mined

Harusu opencast coal mine is located in the east of zengerqi (xuejiayan town), ordos city, Inner Mongolia autonomous region. The recoverable coal reserves are 1.73 billion tons, the average thickness of coal seam is 21.01 meters, and the designed service life is 79 years. The first mining area of raw coal reserves of 636 million tons, service life of 32 years. At present, the company and the nearby heidaigou open-pit coal mine plan to carry out the expansion and renovation project, and the designed production capacity of the two mines reaches 60 million tons.

3. Heidaigou open-pit coal mine, China: recoverable raw coal reserves of 1.498 billion tons.

Heidaigou lutian coal mine belongs to China shenhua group junger energy co., LTD. It is one of the three main projects in the phase I of junger project, a key project during the eighth five-year plan.

4. Moatize coal mine, mozambique: the recoverable coal reserves are nearly 1.48 billion tons.

Located in mozambique's tete province, the mine is the world's fourth largest. Tete province, where Mr Moatize is located, has 42.65 million tonnes of coal reserves, of which 23.46 million tonnes are of commercial value, including at least 8.72 million tonnes of coking coal. The reserves of coking and thermal coal are guaranteed to be mined at a rate of 2.2 million tons a year for 11 and a half years, with a pretax value of $662 million.

5. United States black mine: recoverable coal reserves of 1.47 billion tons.

The black thunder opencast mine is located in the powder river basin of Wyoming. The open-pit mine is designed to have an area of 144.5 square kilometers. The mine, which is owned by arch coal, has estimated recoverable coal reserves of 1.47 billion tons.

6. Australian scenic coal mines: recoverable coal reserves are 1.06 billion tons.

The mine, which began producing coal in 1972, has about 1.06 billion tons of recoverable coal reserves and can be transported directly by rail to the cape y coal terminal, where it can be sold by sea around the world.

7. Australia's tai Arthur coal mine: recoverable coal reserves are 1.049 billion tons.

Located in the hunter valley region of new south wales. It is currently the seventh largest coal mine in the world, with 1.449 billion tons of recoverable coal reserves.

8. Cobarro coal mine, United States: recoverable coal reserves are 852 million tons.

The cobarro mine is located in the powder river basin of Wyoming. As of December 2012, the mine had 852 million tons of recoverable coal reserves. The cobarro mine, owned by Peabody energy, has produced coal since 1978. The mine is an open-pit mine with two coal seams.

9. Raspadaskaya coal mine, Russia: recoverable coal reserves are 782 million tons.

10. Cerrejon coal mine, Colombia: recoverable coal reserves are 754 million tons.

Cerrejon coal mine is located in Colombia's guajira peninsula. Serrehong coal mine is the tenth largest coal mine in the world.