Skyline Mine 3

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Skyline Mine #3 is an operating coal mine in Helper, Utah, United States.

Location

Table 1: Project-level location details

Mine Name Location Coordinates (WGS 84)
Skyline Mine #3 Helper, Utah, United States 39.684262, -111.203361 (exact)

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Project Details

Table 2: Project status

Status Status Detail Opening Year Closing Year
Operating

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
2.527416574[1] 2023[1] Underground 373* 358[1]

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
Uinta Basin Bituminous

Table 5: Ownership and parent company

Owner Parent Company Headquarters
Canyon Fuel Wolverine Fuels LLC [100.0%] USA

Table 6: Historical production (unit: million tonnes per annum)

ROM or Saleable 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023
ROM 4[2] 3[2] 3[2] 3[3] 3[3] 2[3] 2[3]

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.

Ownership

The Skyline Complex was owned by Arch Coal,[4] as part of Arch Coal's western bituminous mining region, which sold 20.6 million tons of coal in 2008.[5]

In June 2013 Canyon Fuel Co. was sold by Arch Coal Inc. for US$435 million to Bowie Resources, a mining firm from Kentucky. The sale consisted of the Sufco Mine in Sevier County, the Dugout Canyon Mine in Carbon County and the Skyline Complex on the Emery/Carbon county border.[6]

Bowie Resources is now known as Wolverine Fuels LLC [7]

Contact Details

Skyline Complex
North Lease Mine
P.O. Box 719
Helper, UT 84526
Phone: (435) 448-6463

Physical Address

Scofield Route, Eccles Canyon
Helper, UT

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 https://web.archive.org/web/20240213175031/https://www.msha.gov/data-and-reports/statistics/mine-employment-and-coal-production. Archived from the original on 13 February 2024. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 https://miningdataonline.com/property/1438/Skyline-Mine.aspx. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 (PDF) https://geology.utah.gov/docs/statistics/coal2.0/pdf/T2.8.pdf. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  4. "Our mines: Skyline Complex", Arch Coal website, November 2009.
  5. "Our mines", Arch Coal website, November 2009.
  6. Mike Gorrell, "Utah's largest coal company sold for $435 million," The Salt Lake Tribune, June 28, 2013
  7. "Bowie Resource Partners Announces New Utah Headquarters And New Corporate Name" prnewswire.com, October 15, 2020.

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