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Utah Power & Light (UP&L) (now operated as Rocky Mountain Power a division of PacifiCorp) purchased the rights to the mine on April 18, 1977, and then contracted out operating the mine to American Coal Company. In June 1979 Emery Mining Corporation (EMC) took over operations. In December 1984 the mine employed 326 miners, and 290 of those were ...
Marion County Mine: CONSOL Energy [9] Underground West Virginia 6,114,799 Ohio County Mine Ohio County Coal Underground West Virginia 6,046,582 Dry Fork Mine: Western Fuels Association [12] Surface Wyoming 6,045,618 Gibson South: Gibson County Coal Underground Indiana 5,955,676 Sufco: Arch Coal [4] Underground Utah
The cost and risk of mining coal here made it hard to compete with safer mines that yielded better quality coal. [4] By 1921 only two mines remained in operation, but they were still producing about 200 short tons (180 t) per day. By 1931 the only remaining buyer of Grass Creek coal was the cement plant at Croydon. That year the cement plant ...
Pages in category "Mining communities in Utah" The following 52 pages are in this category, out of 52 total. ... Castle Gate, Utah; Clear Creek, Utah; Coal City, Utah ...
Spring Canyon, also called Storrs, is a ghost town in Carbon County, Utah, United States. In 1912, Jesse Knight purchased 1,600 acres of coal land and began developing a mine and a company town. Knight named the town Storrs , after the mine superintendent. [ 2 ]
But Porter said Emery County Coal Resources, the company that runs the mine, has a solid plan to extinguish it. The Lila Canyon Mine fire burning in East Carbon, Utah in September 2022. (KSL)
The mine produced high-quality coal for the steam trains. Castle Gate Mine #2 opened in 1912, and was found to have the finest coal in the region. In 1914, Castle Gate was incorporated as a town, which was owned and tightly controlled by the Utah Fuel Company and the D&RGW; a third mine opened in 1922. [citation needed]
Hiawatha is an unincorporated community and near-ghost town, formerly a coal mining town in southwestern Carbon County, Utah, United States.While the town's former corporate limits were almost entirely within Carbon County, the western part was within the Manti-La Sal National Forest and a very small part extended west into Emery County.