Jacobs Ranch is a large open-pit coal mine located 15 miles southeast of

Wright, Wyoming Wright is a town in Campbell County, Wyoming, United States. The population was 1,807 at the 2010 census. History Ten thousand years ago, the first people came to the high plains to hunt buffalo and antelope. In more recent times, the Sioux a ...

in the coal-rich Powder River Basin. In 2007, the mine produced 38.1 million

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s of coal, making it the fourth-largest coal mine by production in the United States.

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Until 2009 the Jacobs Ranch mine was owned by

Rio Tinto Energy America Rio Tinto Energy America (RTEA) was a wholly owned American subsidiary of the England and Australia-based mining giant, the Rio Tinto Group, headquartered in Gillette, Wyoming, United States. The company, previously known as Kennecott Energy after ...

, an American-based subsidiary of the international mining giant

Rio Tinto Group Rio Tinto Group is an Anglo-Australian Multinational corporation, multinational company that is the world's second-largest metals and mining corporation (behind BHP). The company was founded in 1873 when of a group of investors purchased a mine ...

. In early 2009, Rio Tinto reached an agreement to sell the Jacobs Ranch mine to Arch Coal for $761 million.

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