Posts Tagged ‘ powder river basin ’

Westmoreland leases big coal resource in Montana

December 6, 2011

Westmoreland Coal Co. has leased over 8,800 acres of private coal, representing an estimated 158 million tons of Rosebud McKay coal resources adjacent to its Absaloka mine in Hardin, Mont., it reported this morning. Westmoreland controlled an estimated 389.9 million tons of proven and probable coal reserves across all of its operations as of...

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Powder River Basin coal being used ever further afield

October 5, 2011
Powder River Basin coal being used ever further afield

Came across this graph recently in a presentation by Gillette-based Cloud Peak Energy Inc., which bills itself as the only pure-play Powder River Basin coal miner. It shows just how far coal from the PRB of eastern Wyoming and Montana is being used — as far as western New York and Georgia. That doesn’t even...

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Rio Tinto selling its Jacobs Ranch coal mine to Arch Coal

March 9, 2009
Rio Tinto selling its Jacobs Ranch coal mine to Arch Coal

Arch Coal Inc. has agreed to purchase Rio Tinto‘s Jacobs Ranch mine in the Powder River Basin of Wyoming for $761 million, it said today. In 2008, Jacobs Ranch produced 42.1 million tons of high-quality sub-bituminous coal for sale to power generators located throughout the United States. The deal gives Arch 381 million tons...

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