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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...
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    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...
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    The Ursa Major (lit. Great Bear) at Black Thunder Coal Mine, Wyoming, is the largest dragline excavator currently in use in North America and the third...
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  • transaction were the Black Thunder Coal Mine and Coal Creek mines in the Powder River Basin of Wyoming; the West Elk longwall mine in Gunnison County,...
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    Powder River Basin (category Coal mining regions in the United States)
    Powder River Basin is the largest coal-producing region in the United States. The region includes the Black Thunder Coal Mine, the most productive in the United...
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  • India Operation Black Thunder, a military operation in India in the 1980s Black Thunder Coal Mine, a coal mine in Wyoming Black Thunder, a novel by Arna...
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    another explosion occurred, killing all 59 of those inside. Black Thunder Coal Mine "Coal". Wyoming Mining Association. May 31, 2013. Retrieved October 16...
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    1970s, with the creation of the Black Thunder Coal Mine, the largest mine in the Powder River Basin and most productive mine in the United States. The Wright...
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    The following table lists the coal mines in the United States that produced at least 4,000,000 short tons of coal. According to the U.S. Energy Information...
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    capacities between 120 and 160 cu yd (92 and 122 m3). Ursa Major at Black Thunder Coal Mine was reported to be the third largest dragline ever built. The Silver...
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  • Wright, Wyoming was built by ARCO in the 1970s to support its Black Thunder Coal Mine. Wright incorporated in 1985 Marsh v. Alabama, 326 U.S. 501 (1946)...
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    at Massey Energy's Upper Big Branch coal mine located in Montcoal. 29 out of 31 at the site were killed. The coal dust explosion occurred at 3:27 pm....
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  • export—Westmoreland Coal Company's Coal Valley and Hillsborough Resources Limited's Quinsam mine. A third thermal coal for export mining project—the Vista Coal Project...
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    Peabody Energy (redirect from Peabody Coal)
    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...
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    Battle of Blair Mountain (category Labor disputes led by the United Mine Workers of America)
    some 10,000 armed coal miners confronted 3,000 lawmen and strikebreakers (called the Logan Defenders) who were backed by coal mine operators during the...
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    is home to two of the largest coal mines in the United States, the Black Thunder Mine and the North Antelope Rochelle Mine, both located in the Powder River...
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  • Mines, coal mines located in Carbon County, Wyoming, United States, caused a total of over 200 fatalities. The 1903 incident was Wyoming's worst coal...
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    1970s, with the creation of the Black Thunder Coal Mine, the largest mine in the Powder River Basin and most productive mine in the United States. The town...
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    center of labor strife between coal mine owners and union workers, especially in the Harlan County War of the 1930s. The coal mining industry began to decline...
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    Creek–Cabin Creek Strike, or the Paint Creek Mine War, was a confrontation between striking coal miners and coal operators in Kanawha County, West Virginia...
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    One of his first notable roles was as Oliver "Doolittle Mooney" Lynn in Coal Miner's Daughter with Sissy Spacek (1980). He then went on to play one of...
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  • coal holdings in the Black Thunder mine at Thunder Basin, Wyoming. ARCO planned to diversify its energy business into coal. In June 1998, Arch Coal completed...
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    Davy lamp (category Mine safety)
    with the flame enclosed inside a mesh screen. It was created for use in coal mines, to reduce the danger of explosions due to the presence of methane and...
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    Coal phase-out is an environmental policy intended to stop burning coal in coal-fired power plants and elsewhere, and is part of fossil fuel phase-out...
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  • Aberfan disaster (category Coal mining disasters in Wales)
    (NCB). Regulation in the coal industry was provided by HM Inspectorate of Mines. The inspectors had worked as engineers in the coal industry and were former...
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    Mother Jones (category United Mine Workers of America people)
    Museum. Retrieved April 8, 2023. Savage, Lon (1990). Thunder in the Mountains: The West Virginia Mine War 1920–21 (1985 ed.). Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh...
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    His father, Noah Young, was a foreman of the Glenrock coal mine who later became a coal mine inspector for the State of Wyoming; and his mother was Mary...
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    Wyoming (section Coal)
    cryptocurrencies". Casper Star-Tribune Online. Retrieved April 25, 2023. "Aggregate coal mine production". October 3, 2023. Archived from the original on October 2...
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    as a coal mining town attracting immigrants from Italy, France, Greece, Turkey, several Slavic countries and Latin America. The Frederick Coal mine closed...
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    addition to tourism and mining (including coal, specialty minerals, and the now declining gold mining), the Black Hills economy includes ranching (sheep...
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