Black Thunder Coal Mine
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| One of the largest coal mines in the USA, Black Thunder extracted 31.6 million short tons from its open pit in 1994, and nearly 60 million tons in 2000. Operated by Arch Coal, which bought out ARCO's Thunder Basin Coal Company in 1998. One of several major mining operations extracting coal from a 50-mile-long seam in the Powder River Basin area, one of the largest coal deposits in the world. |
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70 miles NE of Casper, E of Wright
(POINT(-105.24734973907 43.619735667321))
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| Tours available by arrangement. |
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http://www.archcoal.com/
http://www.mining-technology.com/projects/thunder/
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Mining, Strip Mine
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