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Peabody Energy is a coal mining company headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri. [4][5] Its primary business consists of the mining, sale, and distribution of coal, which is purchased for use in electricity generation and steelmaking. Peabody also markets, brokers, and trades coal through offices in China, Australia, and the United States.
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. [2]: 1
Spring Creek Coal Company: Cloud Peak Energy [5] Surface Montana: 12,725,656 Bailey Mine: CONSOL Energy [9] Underground Pennsylvania: 12,123,618 Marshall County Mine: Marshall County Coal Company Underground West Virginia: 11,653,535 Caballo Mine: Peabody Energy Corporation [3] Surface Wyoming 11,125,949 Kosse Strip
Peabody married May Henderson on November 23, 1887. [1] He bought out his business partner in 1889, and incorporated the Peabody Coal Company in the state of Illinois in 1890. [3] In 1894, Peabody ran unsuccessfully for Sheriff of Chicago. By 1905, Peabody was the president and director of ten companies.
Owner. Company. Peabody Energy. 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]
www.archrsc.com. Arch Resources, previously known as Arch Coal, is an American coal mining and processing company. The company mines, processes, and markets bituminous and sub-bituminous coal with low sulfur content in the United States. Arch Resources is the second-largest supplier of coal in the United States, behind Peabody Energy.
The largest mining company founded during the 30-year span of prosperity became Peabody Coal Company (Peabody Energy), whose corporate offices were located in the region in Henderson, Ky., at the time. A combination of economic shifts and industry contributed to a decline in coal production starting in the early 1970s.