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Proposed coal mines
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Bear Run Mine (Indiana)
Peabody Energy plans to open Bear Run Mine south of Dugger in Sullivan County, Indiana. Company officials say they have agreements to supply more than 90 million tons of coal, and they will start surface mining at Bear Run in 2009. Production is expected to be 8 million tons of coal per year. The mine will employ 350 workers. The plant will produce high-BTU, high-sulfur coal for scrubber-equipped generating plants.[1]
Crow Reservation (Montana)
In April 2008, operators of the Absaloka Mine in southeastern Montana proposed to extend the mine 3,660 acres onto the neighboring Crow reservation. Approximately 77 million tons of coal would be recovered and mining would be extended until about 2023. Westmoreland Resources owns the land and the Crow tribe owns the coal. Royalty and coal production taxes bring substantial income to the tribe, for example in 2006, the tribe earned $16.6 million.[2]
Chuitna River mine (Alaska)
- Dan Joling, "Proposed coal mine across Cook Inlet draws protesters," Anchorage Daily News, July 30, 2007
Red Cliff Mine (Colorado)
- "Red Cliff Mine"
- Rhino Energy, company website
- Proposed Red Cliff Coal Mine project description, Bureau of Land Management
Sage Creek Mine (Colorado)
Peabody Energy and Twentymile Coal Company hope to begin construction on the new underground Sage Creek Mine in West Routt County, CO as early as 2010. The new mine is expected to replace the existing Twentymile Mine sometime in 2013, when the underground longwall mining operation is projected to run out of coal. Twentymile produced 8 million tons of coal in 2008.[3]
Resources
References
- ↑ "Coal Mines Making a Comeback," iStockAnalyst, March 30, 2009.
- ↑ “Proposal would move mining onto Crow Reservation” Susan Gallagher, Helena Independent Record, April 4, 2008
- ↑ "New coal mine planned for West Routt," Steamboat Pilot & Today, April 5, 2009.
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External resources
- Major U.S. Coal Mines, U.S. Energy Information Administration
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