Overview

Mine Type	Open Pit
Status	Active
Commodities	Coal (thermal)
Mining Method	Truck & Shovel / Loader
Production Start	...
Snapshot	Shengli is a large-scale open-cut mine, which is located in Inner Mongolia, it’s one of the largest active coal mines in China. Shengli Mine includes several open-pit operations, including the Shengli East No. 2 Open Pit Mine and the Shengli No. 1 Open-Pit Coal Mine. The Shengli East No. 2 Open Pit Mine is one of the ten-million-ton scale surface coal mines highlighted in China's National 11th Five-Year Plan for the coal industry.

Deposit type

• Sedimentary

Summary:

The Shengli Coalfield, located approximately 3 km from the outskirts of Xilinhaote City in Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, is approximately 680 km northeast of Baotou and 525 km north of Beijing. The coalfield occurs along the west slope of Daxinganling Mountain in a broad synclinal basin containing the Bayanhua coal-bearing formations.

The coal-bearing strata occurs in the Cretaceous Period's Shengli Fm and is defined by a faulted- bounded synclinal basin structure influenced by several large displacement normal faults. The mining license for China Shenhua's Shengli No. 1 Mine specifies opencut mining of six recoverable seams down to and including the No. 6 Seam. The focus seams show lateral continuity with cumulative recoverable thickness averaging 54 m (all splits of both Nos. 5 and 6 Seams). Overburden above the No. 5 Seam ranges from 20 m to 180 m, and averages 100 m. The seams dip northeast at 5° to 6°.

Characteristics of commercial coal:
Major types of coal - Lognite
Calorific value - 2,956 Kcal/kg
Sulphur content - 1 %
Ash content - 24.0 %

Mining Methods

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Comminution

Crushers and Mills

Processing

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Production

Commodity	Units	2023	2022	2021	2020	2019	2018	2017	2016
Coal (thermal)	Mt	....	....	....	....	14	19	19	16

Operational metrics

Metrics	2023	2022	2021	2020	2019	2018	2017	2016
Coal tonnes mined	....	....	....	....	13.7 Mt	18.7 Mt	19.2 Mt	16 Mt
Raw coal annual capacity	....	....	....	....