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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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    Alabama (ex-Frisco), and access to the low-sulfur coal of Wyoming's Powder River Basin.[citation needed] On June 30, 1994, BN and ATSF announced plans to...
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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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    Wyoming (section Basins)
    billion metric tons) of coal. Major coal areas include the Powder River Basin and the Green River Basin. The boom for coalbed methane (CBM) began in the mid-1990s...
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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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    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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  • 000-acre (33,000 ha) parcel along Montana's Tongue River and on the northern end of the Powder River Basin, Mars was active in opposing the development of...
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    mission is to convert the chemical energy available from its Wyoming Powder River Basin sub-bituminous coal supply into electric energy. Jeffrey EC came into...
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  • 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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    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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    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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    basin. Folds typically form during crustal deformation as the result of compression that accompanies orogenic mountain building. Powder River Basin,...
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    in the Houston area. NRG Energy owns and operates the plant. The Powder River Basin supplies three 115-car trainloads worth of low-sulfur coal to units...
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    A major source of sub-bituminous coal in the United States is the Powder River Basin in Wyoming. Sub-bituminous coals, in the United States, typically...
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