Mine · Lee County, Texas, United States
Three Oaks
Three Oaks is a closed mine in Lee County, Texas, United States, owned by Vistra Energy.
Facts
Every value links to its source, and to the source's own record where it has one. Licences and last-checked dates are per row.
| Fact | Value | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Location | Lee County | MSHA Mines Data Set · Public domain · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Status | Closed (abandoned) | MSHA Mines Data Set · Public domain · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Commodities | lignite (mainly lignite) | MSHA Mines Data Set · Public domain · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Owner | Vistra Energy (controls the operator) | MSHA Mines Data Set · Public domain · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Operator | Luminant Mining Company LLC | MSHA Mines Data Set · Public domain · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Employees | 43 people (annual average, in 2023) | MSHA Mines Data Set · Public domain · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Mine type | Surface | MSHA Mines Data Set · Public domain · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Coordinates | 30.4164, -97.2164 | MSHA Mines Data Set · Public domain · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
Research on this mine and its owner.Who owns it up to the parent company, its permits, resources and offtake, and an introduction to the owner.
Request researchHow its owner compares
Vistra Energy owns 6 of the 2,675 mines in the United States in our data with a named owner; 54 owners have more. Counts cover the mines in our data that name an owner, holder or operator; an asset with several owners counts for each.
| Owner in United States | Rank | Mines | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alpha Metallurgical Resources Inc | 1st | 56 | 2.1% |
| Sev.en Global Investments a.s. | 2nd | 50 | 1.9% |
| Rosebud Mining Company | 3rd | 40 | 1.5% |
| Martin Marietta Materials Inc | 4th | 29 | 1.1% |
| Metinvest B V | 4th | 29 | 1.1% |
| Vistra Energy | 55th | 6 | 0.22% |
Nearby
Within 50 km of this mine: 8 power plants (4 operating, 2,547 MW), 4 data centers and 2 AI supercomputers, measured from the coordinates in the facts above. The table shows the nearest 8, up to 3 per kind.
| Name | Kind | Size | Status | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sandow Lakes Energy Station | Power plant | 1,290 MW | Planned | 2.4 km |
| Walleye Solar (Sandow II) | Power plant | 369 MW | Planned | 21 km |
| Adelite Storage Project LLC | Power plant | 230 MW | Permitted | 23 km |
| Thin-nology | Data center | — | — | 36 km |
| Switch: The Rock | Data center | — | — | 44 km |
| Cortex supercomputer | Data center | — | — | 45 km |
| TACC Frontera | AI supercomputer | 32 H100e | Operating | 49 km |
| TACC Lonestar6 | AI supercomputer | 79 H100e | Operating | 49 km |
Owner, operator and place
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Data on this page
- Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration (Sep 2026). EIA-860 / 860M / 923, Public domain.
- Epoch AI. Epoch AI supercomputers, CC BY 4.0.
- MSHA Mines Data Set. MSHA Mines Data Set, Public domain.
- © OpenStreetMap contributors. OpenStreetMap data centers, ODbL 1.0.