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Willow Creek Mine

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Summary

Mine TypeOpen Pit
StatusActive
Commodities
  • Coal (metallurgical)
Mining Method
  • Truck & Shovel / Loader
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SnapshotThe Willow Creek mine produces hard coking coal (HCC) and pulverized coal injection (PCI) product. The coal is processed on site then transported by rail to the Trigon Terminal.

Conuma Resources Limited completed a preliminary feasibility study in September 2022, but as of early 2025, this study is not public. Conuma Resources Ltd. continued baseline monitoring for Willow Creek Extension project.

Owners

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CompanyInterestOwnership
ERP Compliant Fuels, LLC 100 % Indirect
Conuma Resources Ltd. (operator) 100 % Direct
Conuma Coal Resources Ltd. operates surface mine operations at Willow Creek.

Conuma Coal Resources Ltd. (Conuma Coal) is a subsidiary of West Virginia-based mining company ERP Compliant Fuels.

Deposit type

  • Sedimentary

Summary:

All of the deposits of interest for the Willow Creek property refer to the potentially surface mineable coals.

There are seams present in other formations of the sequence in this area but their distribution and commercial significance has not yet been determined for the Willow Creek Property.

The Gething Formation seams of interest are those numbered from 1 through 8 and Seam A. Another seam, referred to as Seam 9, achieves mineable thickness from place to place.

A minimum coal thickness of 1.0m is required to meet the criteria for inclusion to the mineral resource. Partings were considered separable from the seam if they were greater than 1.0m, and non separable if less than 1.0m. If the parting was greater than 3.0m, the seam packages were modeled separately, and considered as a repeat.

Seam naming has been kept the same, with the seams called Seam 1 at the top of the section and Seam 8 at the bottom. Seam A occurs in the north only, between Seams 4 and 5. On some sections a zero was added to the end of the seam name to identify seam splits (e.g. Seam 7 is represented as Seam 70 where intact and Seam 71 and Seam 72 to indicate splits).

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Comminution

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Commodity Production

Production for 2023 and 2024 is a forecast calculated based on quarters 1-3 of 2023 and 2024, respectively.
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All production numbers are expressed as clean coal.

Production Costs

Commodity production costs have not been reported.

Personnel

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