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{{#Badges: CoalSwarm|Navbar-PBRMines}}'''Black Thunder Coal Mine''' is a coal mine in Wyoming, United States.
==Location== The map below shows the location of the mine, near Wright, in Campbell county, Wyoming. {{#display_map:43.66,-105.3|width=600|height=500|type=hybrid|zoom=13}} ==Background== The '''Black Thunder Coal Mine''' is operated by [[Arch Coal]] and is a surface coal mine in the U.S. state of [[Wyoming]], located in Campbell County, in the [[Powder River Basin]], which contains one of the largest deposits of coal in the world. Black Thunder is one of the largest coal mining complex complexes in the United States, behind only the [[North Antelope Rochelle Mine]], and is one of the largest in the world.<ref name="eia"/>
In 2011 Black Thunder produced 116.2 million tons of coal. The mine is the first coal mine in the world to ship 1 billion tons of coal.<ref>[http://www.archcoal.com/aboutus/blackthunder.aspx "Black Thunder Mine"] Arch Coal, accessed August 1, 2011.</ref> In 2007, the mine extracted 86,196,275 short tons of coal, nearly 20 percent of Wyoming's total coal production, and higher than 23 other individual coal producing states.<ref name="eia">{{cite web|url=http://www.eia.doe.gov/cneaf/coal/page/acr/acr_sum.html|title=Energy Information Administration - Annual Report|accessdate=2008-01-25}}</ref> In early 2009, [[Rio Tinto]] reached an agreement to sell its [[Jacobs Ranch Mine]] to [[Arch Coal]] for $761 million, which will combine the mine with its [[Black Thunder Mine]].<ref>Brett Foley, [http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601085&sid=aQRIkg28LZxA&refer=europe "Arch Coal to Buy U.S. Mine From Rio for $761 Million"] Bloomberg.com, March 12, 2009</ref> In 2010, the Black Thunder Mine dug up an estimated 115 million tons of coal, an increase of 34 million tons over 2009. The increase was a result of merging the [[Jacobs Ranch Mine]] - and its average 38 million tons per year - into the Black Thunder's annual production.<ref>Dustin Bleizeffer, [http://www.gillettenewsrecord.com/articles/2011/01/05/news/state_news/news62.txt "Rebound: 2010 showed modest recovery for coal"] K2 Technologies, January 5, 2011.</ref>
== History ==
