CONSOL Energy Ships First Coking Coal from Its Newest Mine, W.Va.
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CONSOL Energy’s newest mine has shipped its first train full of metallurgical coal.
Itmann No. 5, in southern West Virginia, loaded and shipped that first coal via Norfolk Southern several weeks after the Canonsburg-based company commissioned the preparation plant at the $100 million mine.
Itmann is an expansion for CONSOL beyond its traditional production of coal for power plants, which is mined at its Bailey/Enlow Fork/Harvey mine complex underneath Greene and Washington counties. Itmann’s metallurgical coal is being used in steel manufacturing, which has different requirements for its energy compared to power plants.
About 175 people work at the mine, and when it’s fully operational, it’ll send about 900,000 tons of metallurgical coking coal domestically and internationally a year. Despite some equipment and supply chain issues, Itmann’s preparation plant began on time in the third quarter and will be fully operationally by the fourth quarter.
“I’d like to thank our hardworking Itmann team, who enabled us to bring this project to fruition with an aggressive schedule in a challenging supply chain and labor environment, and who we expect will be the backbone of our success at Itmann going forward,” said CONSOL President and CEO Jimmy Brock in a statement.
“We also thank the state of West Virginia for its cooperation and support of this project and our transportation partner, Norfolk Southern Corp., for its additional investment in the area and support of the Itmann project and surrounding communities. We look forward to continuing these relationships for decades to come,” added Brock.
Source: Pittsburgh Business Times
About CONSOL Energy Inc.
CONSOL Energy Inc. is a Canonsburg, Pennsylvania-based producer and exporter of high-Btu bituminous thermal coal and metallurgical coal. It owns and operates some of the most productive longwall mining operations in the Northern Appalachian Basin and is developing a new metallurgical coal mine (the Itmann project) in the Central Appalachian Basin. CONSOL’s flagship operation is the Pennsylvania Mining Complex, which has the capacity to produce approximately 28.5 million tons of coal per year and is comprised of 3 large-scale underground mines: Bailey, Enlow Fork, and Harvey. The company also owns and operates the CONSOL Marine Terminal, which is located in the port of Baltimore and has a throughput capacity of approximately 15 million tons per year. In addition to the ~612 million reserve tons associated with the Pennsylvania Mining Complex and the ~21 million reserve tons associated with the Itmann project, the company also controls approximately 1.4 billion tons of greenfield thermal and metallurgical coal reserves and resources located in the major coal-producing basins of the eastern United States.
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