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The North Antelope Rochelle Mine is the largest coal mine in the world. [1] [2] Located in Campbell County, Wyoming, about 65 miles (105 km) south of Gillette, it produced 85.3 million tons of coal in 2019. [3] [4] Peabody Energy opened the North Antelope Mine in the heart of Wyoming's Powder River Basin in 1983. [5] The Rochelle mine was ...
Peabody's largest operation is the North Antelope Rochelle Mine located in Campbell County, Wyoming, which mined more than 60 million tons of coal in 2022. Peabody spun off coal mining operations in West Virginia and Kentucky into Patriot Coal Corporation in October 2007.
North Antelope Rochelle Mine: Peabody Energy Corporation [3] Surface Wyoming: 101,595,323 Black Thunder Mine: Arch Coal [4] Surface Wyoming 99,450,689 Antelope Coal Mine: Cloud Peak Energy [5] Surface Wyoming 28,503,504 Eagle Butte Mine: Foundation Coal [6] Surface Wyoming 17,264,483 Cordero Rojo Mine: Cloud Peak Energy [5]
The tornado hit the North Antelope Rochelle Mine in Campbell County around 6 p.m. Friday during a shift change, initially complicating search and rescue efforts. But Peabody Energy, the operator ...
Tornado made ‘direct hit’ on North Antelope Rochelle Mine flipping train cars and vehicles. Skip to main content. News. 24/7 help. For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 ...
Open-pit strip mining is the technique that coal operators prefer for removing the sparsely vegetated surface (overburden in mining terminology) of northeastern Wyoming that covers the coal seams. One of the largest of these mines, Peabody Energy’s North Antelope Rochelle Complex, is located at the center of this astronaut photograph.
A P&H 4100 shovel loads coal into a haul truck at the North Antelope Rochelle Mine.. Coal mining in Wyoming has long been a significant part of the state's economy. Wyoming has been the largest producer of coal in the United States since 1986, [1] and in 2018, coal mines employed approximately 1% of the state's population. [2]
North Antelope Rochelle was created after Peabody Energy purchased the Rochelle mine adjacent to their North Antelope Mine, and consolidated operations. Arch Coal, Inc. announced on March 9, 2009 that it has agreed to purchase Rio Tinto's Jacobs Ranch mine adjoining Black Thunder, which resulted in Black Thunder once again becoming the largest ...