Black Thunder ships one billionth ton of coal
According to a report here, the Black Thunder coal mine in the Powder River basin (Wyoming) just shipped it’s 1,000,000,000th ton of coal (more than any other coal mine in the world) - and all of that was shipped out by railroad! Black Thunder is the second largest coal mine in North America, producing 62 million tons in 2003 (the largest is it’s Powder River Basin neighbor North Antelope Rochelle, with 80 million tons a year). It alone produces almost 10 percent of the US coal supply.
Posted in: Uncategorized | December 20, 2004 1:11 pm
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Peet, on December 24, 2004 @ 8:26 am
Some of the stuff they get out there is moving South. See my pictures of a unit coal train in Colorado.
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