Beulah Mine
{{#Badges: CoalSwarm}}
Beulah Mine is a 9,000-acre surface coal mine complex located 75 miles northwest of Bismarck, North Dakota, owned by Westmoreland Coal Company. The Beulah Mine produces approximately 3.0 million tons of lignite annually from three active pits.[1]
Contents
Location
Mine Data
- MSHA ID: 3200043
- Owner: Dakota Westmoreland Corporation
- Parent company: Westmoreland Coal Company
- Location: Beulah, North Dakota
- GPS coordinates: 47.208724,-101.775112
- Production: 3,000,000 tons
- Type of coal: Lignite
- Mine type: Surface
- Equipment: Draglines
- Number of employees: 157
- Coal Reserves: 47,000,000 tons
Coal Deliveries
Coal from this operation supplied the adjacent 427 MW Coyote Station, a base-load generation facility that purchased all of its lignite from the Beulah Mine. Dakota Westmoreland also owns and controls a four-mile rail spur that connects the mine and plant to the Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railroad’s Stanton line, which it uses to supply the two-unit 75 MW Heskett Station, located 74 miles away.[1]
According to the EIA 2019 fuel receipt database the Beulah mine does not longer supply coal to the Coyote Station but only to the Heskett Station. [2] The loss of Coyote Station as a customer and the scheduled closure of Heskett Station in 2021 could leave the mine without any customers forcing the mine to close. Coyote Station is now beëing supplied by the nearby Coyote Mine instead.
Articles and resources
Related SourceWatch articles
- Coal and jobs in the United States
- Coal phase-out
- Headquarters of U.S. coal mining companies
- Global list of coal mining companies and agencies
- North Dakota and coal
- Proposed coal mines
To see a listing of coal mines in a particular state, click on the map:
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Mining: Beulah Mine", Westmoreland Coal Company website, November 2009.
- ↑ "EIA 923 april 2019" EIA 923 2019.
