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Peabody Energy developed two coal strip mines on the Black Mesa reservation: the Black Mesa Mine and the Kayenta Mine. The company pumped water from the underground Navajo Aquifer for washing coal, and, until 2005, in a slurry pipeline operation to transport extracted coal 273 mi (439 km) to the Mohave Generating Station in Laughlin, Nevada.
The Kayenta mine was a surface coal mine operated by Peabody Western Coal Company, a subsidiary of Peabody Energy) on the Navajo Nation in northern Arizona from 1973 to 2019. [1] About 400 acres were mined and reclaimed each year, providing about 8 million tons of coal annually to the Navajo Generating Station .
San Juan Mine 1: San Juan Coal Underground New Mexico: 5,327,442 No 7 Mine: Warrior Met Coal Mining Underground Alabama: 4,864,828 El Segundo El Segundo Coal Surface New Mexico 4,855,010 West Elk Mine: Arch Coal [4] Underground Colorado: 4,821,281 Harvey Mine: CONSOL Energy Underground Pennsylvania
The mesa is located on the Colorado Plateau near Kayenta, Arizona, and rises to over 8,168 ft (2,490 m). Its highest peak is located on Black Mesa's northern rim, a few miles south of the town of Kayenta. Reliable springs surfacing at several locations mean the mesa is more suitable for continuous habitation than much of the surrounding desert ...
Location of surface coal mines in the US Locations of underground coal mines in the US Trends in underground versus surface mining of US coal, 1949–2011. The hardest coal, anthracite, originally used for steel production, heating, and as fuel for ships and railroads, had by 2000 dwindled to an insignificant portion of production.
Pages in category "Mining communities in Arizona" The following 52 pages are in this category, out of 52 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
Mines in Arizona — historic and present day sites of mining operations in Arizona; Subcategories. This category has the following 2 subcategories, out of 2 total. ...
Plant Bowen, the third-largest coal-fired power station in the United States. This is a list of the 215 operational coal-fired power stations in the United States.. Coal generated 16% of electricity in the United States in 2023, [1] an amount less than that from renewable energy or nuclear power, [2] [3] and about half of that generated by natural gas plants.