Surface coal mining practice in China - ScienceDirect
The coal reserves suitable for surface mining are only about 37.475 Gt, 4.2% of all coal reserves in China. The coalfields that favourite to surface mining are mainly located in eastern Inner-Mongolia, triangle area of Shanxi, Shaanxi and Inner-Mongolia, Yunnan province and Xinjiang. Table 1 shows the surface mineable coal reserves in China.