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Eagle Butte Mine
The Eagle Butte mine is a coal mine located north of Gillette, Wyoming in the United States in the coal-rich Powder River Basin. The mine is an open-pit mining, open pit, "truck and shovel", mine producing a low-sulfur, sub-bituminous coal from the Roland and Smith seams that is used for domestic energy generation. Coal produced by the mine is shipped to its customers via railroad. The mine is owned and operated by Blackjewel LLC after being acquired from Contura energy in 2017.https://investors.conturaenergy.com/files/doc_news/2017/News-Release-Contura-PRB-Asset-Sale-Announcement-12.11.17.pdf As of 2009, Eagle Butte had reserves of of sub-bituminous coal and a maximum permitted production capacity of per year. Typical annual production has been in 20-25 million ton range for the last several years though. The average quality of the coal shipped from Eagle Butte is 8,400 BTU/lb, 0.34% Sulfur, 4.50% Ash, and 1.90% Sodium (of the ash). Train loading operations at the mine are do ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gillette–Campbell County Airport
Northeast Wyoming Regional Airport is five miles northwest of Gillette in Campbell County, Wyoming. It has scheduled airline flights. Federal Aviation Administration records say the airport had 29,271 passenger boardings (enplanements) in calendar year 2016 and 28,383 in 2017. The National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2011–2015 categorized it as a ''primary commercial service'' airport (more than 10,000 enplanements per year). Facilities The airport covers 894 acres (362 ha) at an elevation of 4,364 feet (1,330 m). It has two concrete runways: 16/34 is 7,500 by 150 feet (2,286 x 46 m) and 3/21 is 5,803 by 75 feet (1,769 x 23 m). An air traffic control tower was built in the early 1980s. In 2018 the airport had 12,318 aircraft operations, average 34 per day: 77% general aviation, 23% air taxi, <1% military and <1% airline. 65 aircraft were then based at the airport: 89% single-engine, 9% multi-engine, and 1% jet. As of June 30, 2020, air t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
