This work introduces the results of an intensive 15-day surface observation campaign of methane (CH4) and adapts a new analytical method to compute and attribute CH4 emissions. The selected area has a high atmospheric concentration of CH4 (campaign-wide minimum/mean/standard deviation/max observations: 2.0, 2.9, 1.3, and 16 ppm) due to a rapid increase in the mining, production, and use of coal over the past decade. Observations made in concentric circles at 1km, 3km, and 5km around a high production high gas coal mine were used with the mass conserving model free emissions estimation approach adapted to CH4, yielding emissions of 0.73, 0.28, and 0.15 ppm/min respectively. Attribution used a 2-box mass conserving model to identify the known mine’s emissions from 0.042-5.3 ppm/min, and a previously unidentified mine’s emission from 0.22-7.9 ppm/min. These results demonstrate the importance of quantifying the spatial distribution of methane in terms of control of regional-scale CH4 emissions.