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Rawhide Mine
The Rawhide Mine is a coal mine located 10 miles (16.1 km) north of Gillette, Wyoming in the United States in the coal-rich Powder River Basin. The mine is an open pit mine that utilizes a combination of cast blast/dozer push and truck/shovel mining methods to strip an average of 165 feet (50.3m) of overburden off of approximately 105 (32.0m) feet of coal. Rawhide produces a low-sulfur, sub-bituminous coal from the Roland and Smith seams. This coal is used for domestic energy generation and shipped to customers via railroad. The mine is currently owned and operated by Peabody Energy. As of 2009, Rawhide had reserves of 388,000,000 tons (352,000,000 tonnes) of sub-bituminous coal and a maximum permitted production capacity of 24,000,000 tons per year. Typical annual production has been in 12–18 mm ton range for the last several years though. In 2010, the mine produced just over 11,225,000 million short tons of coal, making it the 13th-largest producer of coal in the U ... [...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] |