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Global Coal Atlas 2025

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Where coal is dug, how it travels, and where it is burned. A selected documentary inventory of mines, railways, ports, sea lanes and power plants. Reference model 2025; source input periods differ. Imported 1 November 2026. Not a live production, vessel or emissions tracker. Click anything on the map, or search below.

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Click a dot, square, triangle or line on the map. Circles are coal mines (dark: thermal and lignite, blue: coking coal), red squares are coal power plants, triangles are ports (green export, purple import), brown lines are coal railways and blue curves are sea lanes.

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    • Coal mines: Global Energy Monitor, Global Coal Mine Tracker (Aug 2026), CC BY 4.0, updated with 2025 company, regulator and government statistics (Queensland government mine-by-mine tables; China NBS by province; India Ministry of Coal).
    • Power plants: Global Energy Monitor, Global Integrated Power Tracker (Aug 2026), CC BY 4.0. 2025 coal burn: EIA-923 2025, EU ETS verified emissions 2025, CEA, NGER, Eskom; national coal generation: Ember via Our World in Data.
    • Steel: Global Energy Monitor, Global Iron and Steel Tracker (Sep 2026), CC BY 4.0. Ports, railways and trade: port authorities, operators, customs, ICMA, AXS Marine via trade press.
    • Country totals: IEA Coal 2025 and national statistics. Prices: World Bank Pink Sheet.
    • Mine splits, plant coal burn and CO2, lane routing and the money are modelled where no public data exists. Not every layer carries a basis tag; source strings and model assumptions remain essential.
    • Basemap: Natural Earth (public domain).