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Black Butte Revival

NAM Staff
Highwall mining at Black Butte, Pit 10. The new mine plan modification facilitates an extension of Pit 10 in its southeast corner of 50 acres and the development of a new pit (Pit 15) north of Pit 10 on 400 acres. Photo: Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement

A mine plan modification will restore full-scale mining and prolong operations at the historic site through 2039. by Josephine Patterson The U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI) has approved a change in the mining plan for the Black Butte mine in Sweetwater County, Wyo., approximately 25 miles east of Rock Springs. The modification enables Black Butte Coal Co. to recover…

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