Absaloka Mine

{{#Badges: CoalSwarm}} Absaloka Mine is a surface operation in Hardin, Montana, owned by Westmoreland Coal Company. The expansion of the mine, which is on the Crow Indian Reservation, contains an enormous bone bed, which includes hundreds of projectile points that may have been used in a systematically killed and processed hundreds of animals more than 2,000 years ago.

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Mine Data

• Owner: Westmoreland Resources Inc.
• Parent company: Westmoreland Coal Company
• Location: Sarpy Rd, near Hardin, Montana
• GPS coordinates: 45.804333,-107.045116
• Production: 7,704,556 short tons
• Type of coal: Sub-Bituminous
• Mine type: Surface
• Equipment: 1 dragline
• Number of employees: 150

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External links

• "Major U.S. Coal Mines," Energy Information Administration