NEA approves a 3 million t/y Shanxi coking coal project

China’s National Energy Administration (NEA) has approved a new coking coal project in Lvliang city in North China’s Shanxi province, according to a recent notification the administration has released. Named the Wujiamao mine and expected to have a raw coal capacity of 3 million tonnes/year, the project is one of very few new coking coal mines Beijing has approved this year.

Operated by Shanxi Fenxi Zhongtai Coal Industry, the project comprises the construction of a 3 million t/y of mine and a coal processing plant of the same capacity. Shanxi Fenxi Zhongtai Coal is controlled by Fenxi Mining Industry, a subsidiary of Shanxi Coking Coal Group – China’s largest coking coal supplier. The mine