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The Black Thunder Coal Mine is a surface coal mine in the U.S. state of Wyoming, located in the Powder River Basin which contains one of the largest deposits of coal in the world. In 2022, the mine produced 62,180,000 short tons (56,410,000 t) of coal, [ 1 ] over 25% of Wyoming's total coal production.
Pages in category "Surface mines in the United States" The following 31 pages are in this category, out of 31 total. ... Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of ...
Mine: State: Coordinates: Town: Owner: Dates: Comments: Pyne Mine: Alabama 33°22′33.18″N 86°55′21.65″W Lacey's Chapel: Woodward Iron Company: 1918–1971 One of only two shaft mines dug in the Birmingham District, and the last ore mine to operate in the region, closing in 1971. Sloss Mines: Alabama 33.39816°N 86.93276°W Red Mountain
Surface Montana 8,630,002 Bear Run Mine: Peabody Bear Run Mining Surface Indiana: 7,271,178 Falkirk Mine: North American Coal Corporation [7] Surface North Dakota: 7,219,086 Three Oaks Mine: Luminant Mining Surface Texas 7,186,478 Harrison County Mine: CONSOL Energy [9] Underground [11] West Virginia
The Rochelle mine was opened in 1984. They were combined in 1999, making the largest coal mine in the United States. A contender for the title of largest mine emerged in 2009 when Arch Coal, the owner of the Black Thunder Coal Mine bought the Jacobs Ranch Mine. These two operations merged and North Antelope Rochelle ceded the title of largest ...
The mine became a showplace for "railroad-pit operations," and the industrial complex defined by the mine and the ASARCO smelting operation made it the "largest industrial mining complex in the world" by 1912. [17]: 168–170 Utah Copper and Boston Consolidated merged after their separate surface operations approached each other in 1906.
Hull–Rust–Mahoning Open Pit Iron Mine – largest open pit iron mine in the world, near Hibbing, Minnesota [7] Lavender Pit – copper mine in Cochise County, Arizona; Morenci Mine – copper mine in Greenlee County, Arizona; Mountain Iron Mine – iron mine in Mountain Iron, Minnesota; Robinson Mine – copper and gold mine in Ruth, Nevada [8]
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.