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Construction Begins on Yangmei Group’s No. 1 Mine Project in Wucuiwan, Jundong, Xinjiang / Source: Huahua Network Coal Chemicals Date: May 31, 2020 Clicks: 35 On May 27, construction commenced on Yangmei Group’s No. 1 mine project in Wucuiwan, Jundong, Xinjiang, within the Jundong Economic and Technological Development Zone. The total investment in this project exceeds 5 billion yuan; the planned annual production capacity is 15 million tons, with the first phase being designed to have an annual production capacity of 6 million tons. The Wucaiwan No.1 Mine Project is a major industrial assistance project from Shanxi Province to Xinjiang, and it is also a key project to be promoted during Xinjiang’s 13th Five-Year Plan period. In recent years, Shanxi Yangmei Group has persisted in providing industrial support to Xinjiang and increased its investment in projects there. With an investment of 11.3 billion yuan, modern coal chemical projects were built, capable of producing 200,000 tons of BDO (a chemical product) and 60,000 tons of PTMEG (a chemical product) per year; these projects have injected new momentum into the development of the modern coal chemical industry in the Zhundong Development Zone. The developer of this project is Xinjiang Guotai Xinhua Wucailiwan Mining Co., Ltd. The developer of the coal-based fine chemical circular economy industrial park in the Zhundong Economic and Technological Development Zone is Xinjiang Guotai Xinhua Chemical Co., Ltd.; both companies are part of Xinjiang Guotai Xinhua Mining Co., Ltd. This mine is a supporting mine for the circular economy industrial park; it covers an area of over 64 square kilometers. The mine’s resource reserves amount to 2.1 billion tons, with a designed extractable reserve of 1.2 billion tons. The coal produced is mainly supplied to the Zhundong Wucaiwan Coal and Electricity Circular Economy Industrial Park. The Yangquan Coal Group’s Xinjiang Zhundong Circular Economy Industrial Park is planned to cover an area of 15,008 mu, with a total investment of 70 billion yuan; the project will be built in three phases. This is the first coal, electricity, and chemical industry park that Yangmei Group has started building in Xinjiang on a full scale. The project covers an area of 298 hectares, with a total investment of 11.3 billion yuan. It includes a BDo production facility with an annual capacity of 200,000 tons (comprising a 90,000-ton/year dry acetylene generation unit and 2 × 240,000-ton/year formaldehyde production units), a PTMEG production facility with an annual capacity of 60,000 tons, a calcium carbide production facility with an annual capacity of 400,000 tons, a methanol production facility with an annual capacity of 200,000 tons (including the associated water-coal slurry gasification and purification units as well as a hydrogen production unit with a capacity of 20,000 Nm3/h), an air separation unit with a capacity of 42,000 Nm3/h, 3 × 150 t/h boilers, 2 × 350 MW power plants, along with various auxiliary and supporting facilities. It also includes Mine No. 1 and the coal washing plant in the Wucaiwan mining area