The Green Ridge Mine extracts coal from the Pocahontas No. 3 seam, recognized as one of the world's premier coking coals. Employing the highly productive room and pillar mining method, the Green Ridge Mine raw coal product is trucked to the Pinnacle Preparation Plant for processing and shipment to the customer.
Location: Pineville, West Virginia
Workforce: 360 employees
Type of Coal: Metallurgical
Annual Capacity: 4.0 million tons
Cliffs’ Ownership Share: 100%
The numbers reported above are estimates for full year 2007. Workforce and production combine Pinnacle and Green Ridge employees.
