State-of-the-art mine opens Charleston Daily Mail
Gov. Joe Manchin and Arch Coal Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Steve Leer are among the dignitaries who were expected to be on hand today as Arch Coal marked the opening of its Mountain Laurel mining complex in Logan County.
Schweitzer lines up $1.3 billion plant Great Falls Tribune
HELENA — The lump of coal and jar of synthetic fuel that Gov. Brian Schweitzer totes around the country as he preaches the gospel of coal-to-diesel technology are almost as much a part of his image as his jeans, bolo ties and border collie, Jag.
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.
Westmoreland's Rosebud Mine Receives National Good Neighbor Award Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.----Westmoreland Coal Company announced today that its Rosebud Mine, located in Colstrip, Montana, has received the Gold Good Neighbor Award, one of three national Good Neighbor Awards from the Office of Surface Mining and Enforcement of the U.S.
Report: Wyo needs 52 more family docs Casper Star-Tribune
CHEYENNE -- Wyoming is going to need a lot more family practice physicians over the next 14 years -- about one-third more than currently, according to a report out this week.
Winter Arctic sea ice in drastic decline New Scientist
The Arctic ice cover is now shrinking in the winter as well as the summer, a NASA researcher finds – global warming is to blame
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
Colorado district may be U.S. bellwether Tulsa World
DENVER — In the high plains and Rocky Mountain foothills around Denver, a handful of suburban, moderate voters may control the fate of Congress.
Feds move to reopen oil-shale mine in Utah Provo Daily Herald
SALT LAKE CITY -- 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,
Experts predict more roadless wrangling Casper Star-Tribune
DENVER -- A court's reinstatement of a ban on new roads on remote national forest land doesn't mean states can't pursue their own management plans for the nearly 59 million acres, a top U.S. Department of Agriculture official said Thursday.

EIA - Coal Data, Reports, Analysis, Surveys
Foidel Creek Mine/Twentymile Coal Company. Underground. Colorado. 9369969. 19. Kayenta Mine/Peabody Western Coal Company. Surface. Arizona. 8192967
Colorado Mining Association
Source - Colorado Mining Association 2005 Coal Production and Employment Report, Colorado Geological Survey Mineral and Mineral Fuel Activity Report 2005
A History of Coal Mining in Las Animas County, Colorado
A History of Coal Mining in Las Animas County, Colorado.
Rebel Graphics :: coalminingincolorado
The history of coal mining in Colorado is dramatic and rich. Coal mining in Colorado was dangerous, with a death rate approximately twice the national
Coal Mining in Golden, Colorado



A History of Coal Mining in Las Animas County, Colorado
A History of Coal Mining in Las Animas County, Colorado.
Rebel Graphics :: coalminingincolorado
The history of coal mining in Colorado is dramatic and rich. Coal mining in Colorado was dangerous, with a death rate approximately twice the national
Coal Mining in Golden, Colorado

Coal Regulatory Program
Colorado decided to administer its own coal regulatory program and enacted the Colorado Surface Coal Mining Reclamation Act in1979 (Section 34-33-101, CRS).
Coal Mine Board of Examiners
National King Coal LLC (970) 385-4638 FAX King Coal Mine 4424 County Road 120 Hesperus, Colorado 81326 tom_bird@nkcmine.com Steve O'Connell (970) 929-8866
Coal mining industry dominated region
Although the United Mine Workers of America did not succeed in unionizing the Colorado coal fields until the 1930s, the events of the 1913-1914 strike
Major US Coal Mines, 2000 (t14p01.txt)
22, Foidel Creek/Twenty Mile Coal, Underground, Colorado, 7221704. 23, Oak Hill/Texas Utilities Mining, Surface, Texas, 6885681. 24, McElroy/McElroy Coal Co
US: Western Slope coal production enters golden age
Largely due to highly efficient longwall mining technology, Colorado has jumped to the front of the line of the nation’s fastest-growing coal-producing