Energy Information Association U.S. Coal Mining Locations

The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) provides impartial and independent data on the nation’s energy infrastructure, its sources, flows, and end uses, as well as forecasts and outlooks. Location information for specific extraction activities, as well as power plants and other supply chain components, can help reveal the regional nature of specific impacts and the often large distances between those effects and end-use drivers.

This is a point dataset representing operating surface and underground coal mines in the United States in 2012. These data originate from the U.S. Energy Information Administration, Form EIA-7A “Coal Production and Preparation Report” and the U.S. Department of Labor, Mine Safety and Health Administration Form 7000-2, “Quarterly Mine Employment and Coal Production Report.”

For additional mine data see “Historical Detailed Coal Production Data”: http://www.eia.gov/coal/data.cfm#production