SRP wants to restart controversial coal plant East Valley Tribune
Salt River Project wants to restart a controversial coal-fired power plant near Laughlin, Nev., that was shut down in December because of environmental problems.
BLM suggests Utah oil-shale mine will reopen to boost domestic production The Salt Lake Tribune
The federal government has taken a step toward approving the reopening of an oil-shale mine in Utah, one of four experimental works on Western lands that are intended to boost domestic oil production. In Colorado, three oil companies won environmental clearance in August for their plans to start producing shale oil by heating layers of rock using electric oven-like elements, steam injection
Friendship survives time, distance News-Register
In a recent column, my husband, the Cloudman, told the story of the renewal of a longtime friendship built on the photograph of an unusual lens-shaped cloud taken by a former student.
Nuclear resurgence fires up uranium Inside Bay Area
TICABOO, Utah — The last U.S. uranium mill ever built, in this parched landscape near Lake Powell, shut down almost as quickly as itstarted operating as nuclear power fell into disfavor about
Nuclear Renaissance Prompts Uranium Boom Bay News 9 Tampa Bay
TICABOO, Utah (AP) -- The last U.S. uranium mill ever built, in this parched landscape near Lake Powell, shut down almost as quickly as it started operating as nuclear power fell into disfavor about two decades ago.
Nuclear Renaissance Prompts Uranium Boom WJLA-TV Washington D.C.
TICABOO, Utah (AP) - The last U.S. uranium mill ever built, in this parched landscape near Lake Powell, shut down almost as quickly as it started operating as nuclear power fell into disfavor about two decades ago.Keith Larsen, chief executive for U.S. Energy Corp., picked up the mill 10 years later for practically nothing, banking it for better days.
Nuclear renaissance prompts uranium boom Sharewatch
Keith Larsen, chief executive for U.S. Energy Corp., picked up the mill 10 years later for practically nothing, banking it for better days. His patience paid off, making Larsen\'s company one of the few already taking profits out of a new uranium boom.
The voice of Interior Alaska since 1903 Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
Longtime resident Mildred “Mickey” Rose Port, 84, passed away peacefully in her sleep at home Sept. 7, 2006, after a brief illness.
Follow the yellow leaf road Denver Post
Tourism promoters like to say there is no perfect time to visit "Colorful Colorado." Residents know otherwise. The best period for hitting the high country, many believe, falls between mid-September and mid-October. Days are warm, nights cool, and mosquitoes have high-tailed it for the season.
Peabody lowers production forecast BizJournals
Peabody Energy reduced its 2006 production forecast Wednesday to 230 million tons, the low end of its previous range, due to new equipment problems, transportation shortfalls and the early closing of a third-party coal supplier.

Rebel Graphics :: slaughter in serene
With little consideration given to safety, Colorado coal miners had been dying by the hundreds. A decade before the Columbine Mine Massacre, 121 miners died
A History of Coal Mining in Las Animas County, Colorado
A History of Coal Mining in Las Animas County, Colorado. In the early 70's, CF&I opened its Maxwell Mine near the Allen.
Colorado Coal Mining
Miner and native of Aguilar, Colorado recalls his thirty—eight years as a coal miner; union rules, wages, and pensions; United Mine Workers; Ludlow massacre
Museum of Northwest Colorado - Tragedy At Wadge Mine Part 2
Mine operators were more concerned with profits than safety. It was not until the Federal Government adopted safety regulations for coal mines and
FR Doc E6-15473
The West Elk Mine was opened in 1981 and presently produces coal from 6th Principal Meridian, in Gunnison County, Colorado (approximately 1800 feet


Colorado Coal Mining
Miner and native of Aguilar, Colorado recalls his thirty—eight years as a coal miner; union rules, wages, and pensions; United Mine Workers; Ludlow massacre
Museum of Northwest Colorado - Tragedy At Wadge Mine Part 2
Mine operators were more concerned with profits than safety. It was not until the Federal Government adopted safety regulations for coal mines and
Museum of Northwest Colorado - Tragedy At Wadge Mine Part 4
More men were killed in the Wadge Mine explosion in Mount Harris, than had died in Colorado coal mine explosions in the last 20 years.
FR Doc E6-15473
The West Elk Mine was opened in 1981 and presently produces coal from 6th Principal Meridian, in Gunnison County, Colorado (approximately 1800 feet
Rebel Graphics :: columbinestory
In the early dawn light the miners scattered under a hail of lead. Columbine Mine Massacre Marker Map · Coal Mining in Colorado
Utah History Encyclopedia
By January 1890, when the United Mine Workers of America was organized, (3) as coal mining expanded in the 1890s and early 1900s, a large number of
Mine Superintendent Job Profile
Under federal coal mining law, a mine superintendent is usually considered Colorado School of Mines, you must makeup your mind early whether you intend
Ludlow Massacre on the Santa Fe Trail National Scenic and Historic
On September 15, 1913, Colorado coal miners, through their delegates attending a By early morning, April 21, 1914, the colony site- once covered by