Operations > Coal
While coal has evolved from the days of the locomotive engines and pot belly stoves,
it remains an essential component in our everyday lives. Today, steam coal
is used by utilities to generate electricity, while metallurgical coal is used for
either the coking process or in place of steam coal.
Drummond has been in the business of mining coal since the Company's inception in
1935. At present, Drummond produces metallurgical coal from
Shoal Creek
in the Warrior Coal Basin, which stretches across Jefferson,
Tuscaloosa and Walker Counties in Alabama. Drummond Ltd. produces
steam coal from
Mina Pribbenow
in La Loma, near Colombia.
The Warrior Coal Basin is located in northwest Alabama and is a part of the southernmost
extension of the bituminous coalfields in the eastern United States. Drummond
Ltd's Colombian coal operation is located in northern Colombia in the Cesar Coal
Basin, near the Caribbean coast, and also contains bituminous coal.
Drummond has invaluable experience in the Warrior Coal Basin mining coal from surface
as well as from underground continuous mining. Mining there has transitioned
to underground longwall operations. The Drummond Ltd. operations in Colombia
have been developed using surface mining and coal-handling expertise exported from
the U.S. operations.
Our customers look to Drummond to meet their energy needs in a complex and challenging
marketplace. Drummond satisfies our customers' requirements with the ability
to blend coal from multiple reserves to ensure consistent, high quality products
which meet or exceed all of our customers' specifications.
Drummond is proud to be identified as a significant producer of compliance coal,
which meets the Phase II low-sulfur requirements of the 1990 Amendments to the Clean
Air Act.
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