The Powder River Basin is a geologic structural basin in southeast Montana and northeast Wyoming, about 120 miles (190 km) east to west and 200 miles...
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Dakota, Minnesota and Eastern Railroad (section 1997–2006: plans for expansion into the Powder River Basin)
took the reins. In 1997, DM&E announced plans to expand into the Powder River Basin (PRB) in Wyoming and provide unit coal train service from that area...
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Powder River is a tributary of the Yellowstone River, approximately 375 miles (604 km) long in northeastern Wyoming and southeastern Montana in the United...
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The Powder River Country is the Powder River Basin area of the Great Plains in northeastern Wyoming, United States. The area is loosely defined as that...
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other states. Black Warrior Basin, Alabama Powder River Basin, Wyoming Raton Basin, Colorado and New Mexico San Juan Basin, Colorado and New Mexico The...
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Coalbed methane (section Powder River Basin)
or otherwise undesirable. Water from coalbed methane wells in the Powder River Basin of Wyoming, US, commonly meets federal drinking water standards, and...
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Uranium mining in Wyoming (section Powder River Basin)
a 60-mile northwest-southeast trend in the southwest part of the Powder River Basin, and production began in 1953. The deposits are roll fronts in fluvial...
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United States Powder River Country, the area around the above river Powder River (Oregon), in Oregon in the United States Powder River Basin, a major coal-producing...
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coal beds in Wyoming, Montana, and parts of adjacent states. In the Powder River Basin, it contains important economic deposits of coal, uranium, and coalbed...
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probable coal reserves, located in Central Appalachia, the Powder River Basin, Illinois basin and the Western Bituminous regions. The company operates mines...
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Permian Basin, Texas and New Mexico Piceance Basin, Colorado Powder River Basin, Wyoming and Montana Raton Basin, Colorado and New Mexico Sacramento Basin, California...
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the largest amount of coal are Powder River Basin of Wyoming and Montana, the Appalachian Basin and the Illinois Basin. In the United States, coal production...
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The Thunder Basin National Grassland is located in northeastern Wyoming in the Powder River Basin between the Big Horn Mountains and the Black Hills....
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interest. Naturally occurring clinkers exist. For example, in the Powder River Basin is covered by clinkers from coal-seam fires, i.e., "baked, welded...
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River Range and on the North are the Absaroka Range and the Owl Creek Mountains. The Casper Arch separates the Wind River from the Powder River Basin...
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The reddish siltstone rock that caps many ridges and buttes in the Powder River Basin in Wyoming and in western North Dakota is called porcelanite, which...
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the basin in which it occurs. It is mapped in the following basins within the Rocky Mountains: Denver Basin, Wind River Basin, Bighorn Basin, Powder River...
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Peabody Energy opened the North Antelope Mine in the heart of Wyoming's Powder River Basin in 1983. The Rochelle mine was opened in 1984. They were combined...
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Alabama (ex-Frisco), and access to the low-sulfur coal of Wyoming's Powder River Basin.[citation needed] The city of Burlington, Iowa is the namesake of...
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company's holdings by 176,000 net acres in the Delaware Basin, 200,000 net acres in the Powder River Basin, and 138,000 net acres on the Northwest Shelf in New...
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Big Horn Mountains and extended eastward into the Powder River basin to the banks of the Powder River. However, this treaty did not indicate agency sites...
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owned Martin Lake Line, shuttling coal from nearby as well as the Powder River Basin in Wyoming via BNSF. The plant consists of three units. Unit 1 was...
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eponymous Wasatch uplift, Uinta uplift, Green River, Piceance, Powder River, Uinta and Paradox Basins and the Colorado Plateau sedimentary province and...
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Coal-mining region (redirect from Coal basin)
Colorado - including Denver Basin. - (see Coal mining in Colorado) Powder River Basin - (see Coal mining in Wyoming) Raton Basin Australia contains 76 billion...
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Powder River basin. The term Powder River basin can refer to the topographic drainage basin lying to the east of the Tongue River drainage basin, but the...
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the Wind River Basin as winter range or as a route to hunting grounds in the Sweetwater, Bighorn Basin, Bighorn Mountains, or Powder River Basin. Coming...
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basin. Folds typically form during crustal deformation as the result of compression that accompanies orogenic mountain building. Powder River Basin,...
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production from the Coal Bed Methane Extraction method used in the Powder River Basin and surrounding areas. However, with the decline of methane production...
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company headquartered in Gillette, Wyoming which mines coal in the Powder River Basin. The company was formed as a corporate spin-off from Rio Tinto Energy...
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