Eagle River No. 1 Coal Mine

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Eagle River No. 1 Coal Mine is an operating coal mine in Harrisburg, Illinois, United States.

Location

Table 1: Project-level location details

Mine Name	Location	Coordinates (WGS 84)
Eagle River No. 1 Coal Mine	Harrisburg, Illinois, United States	37.6646205, -88.5349122 (exact)

The map below shows the exact location of the coal mine:

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Project Details

Table 2: Project status

Status	Status Detail	Opening Year	Closing Year
Operating	Suspension	2011	–

Table 3: Operation details

Note: The asterisk (*) signifies that the value is a GEM estimated figure.

Capacity (Mtpa)	Production (Mtpa)	Year of Production	Mine Type	Mining Method	Mine Size (km2)	Mine Depth (m)	Workforce Size
–	0.027215541	2023	Surface	–	–	75*	3

Table 4: Coal resources and destination

Total Reserves (Mt)	Year of Total Reserves Recorded	Total Resources (Mt)	Coalfield	Coal Type	Coal Grade	Primary Consumer/ Destination
–	–	–	Illinois Basin	Bituminous	–	–

Table 5: Ownership and parent company

Owner	Parent Company	Headquarters
White Stallion Energy	White Stallion Energy [100%]	USA

Note: The above section was automatically generated and is based on data from the Global Coal Mine Tracker April 2024 release and the September supplement.

Background

Eagle River Mine (also known as Eagle River No. 1) is a U.S. surface steam coal mine in Harrisburg, Illinois, owned by private coal company Eagle River Coal LLC. The Eagle River mine is a surface mine operation just south of Harrisburg, IL, in southern Illinois. It ships primarily to electricity generators in Illinois and the Midwest region.

The mine was founded by Tom Franks and family. Franks originally founded the Arclar Company in 1983 as a family-owned coal company. It grew from 19 employees and an annual production of 120,000 tons to 600 employees and an annual production of 6,000,000 tons. Arclar was bought out by Peabody Energy in 2002. Franks then formed the family-owned Eagle River Coal, LLC, which operates the Eagle River mine. Eagle River LLC was one of the few remaining independent mining companies in Illinois, a high-sulfur steam coal state. It is part of the Illinois Basin that also includes neighboring western Kentucky and Indiana. Since 2017, White Stallion Energy, an Illinois based company founded in 2010, acquired the Eagle River Mine, with the Frank family retaining a 49% stake. In addition to the Eagle River Mine, White Stallion Energy controls five mines, four of which are in Indiana, and one in Illinois.

White Stallion Energy had been financially struggling since 2019, and declared bankruptcy on December 2nd 2020. All six of its mines, including Eagle River, are idled during the bankruptcy process. Following White Stallion Energy, Eagle River Coal LLC also declared bankruptcy on January 26 2021, and the two companies' cases are jointly operated. The Eagle River Mine's idling preceded the first bankruptcy by several months. On March 12, 2020, the status of the mine was updated on the MSHA database as non-operational.

In 2019, the last complete calendar year for which the mine was operational, Eagle River employed 116 people and produced 1 million tonnes. The MSHA database indicates that in the first quarter of 2021, the mine only had one employee and produced no coal.

• MSHA id: 1103212
• Sponsor: Eagle River Coal LLC
• Owner: White Stallion Energy
• Location: Harrisburg, Illinois, United States
• GPS Coordinates: 37.6646205, -88.5349122 (exact)
• Status: Operating, temporary suspension
• Production Capacity: 1 million tons (2019)
• Total Resource:
• Mineable Reserves:
• Coal type: High-sulfur
• Mine Size: 295 acres
• Mine Type: Surface
• Start Year: 2011
• Source of Financing:
• Employees: 116 (2019)

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