The Black Thunder thermal coal mine, located in the Southern Powder River Basin of Wyoming, US, was opened in 1977 and for many years was the largest single coal operation in the world. It is also the first coal mine in the world to transport one billion tons of coal and has shipped more than three billion tons of coal during its mine life.

Arch Coal's Thunder Basin Coal Company operates Black Thunder Mine, the world's largest single coal-mining complex, and produces more than 10 percent of the U.S. coal supply each year. Since opening in 1977, nearly 2.2 billion tons of coal have been mined and delivered to America's electric generation plants.

The Black Thunder Mine, shown in the series of Landsat images on the left, has sent 2.2 billion tons of coal to U.S. power plants since 1977. It produces 4 tons of coal per second. The images show the expansion of the open-pit mining operations at Black Thunder.

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. 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. In early 2009, Rio Tinto reached an ...

Black Thunder Coal Mine, Wyoming. For years Black Thunder was the world's largest single coal-mining complex, until it was recently surpassed by the nearby North Antelope Rochelle mine. It is now the second largest coal mine in the nation. Either way, the mine produces nearly 10 percent of the U.S. coal supply annually.

Black Thunder Mine is one of the largest surface coal mining operations in North America. The Black Thunder mining complex currently consists of four active pit areas and two active loadout facilities.

© 2024 Google LLC. Take a virtual tour of Black Thunder Mine, the largest single surface coal-mining complex in the world. Located in northeastern Wyoming, the mine's 1,600 hig...

factualitytour. 159 subscribers. Subscribed. 3. 1.9K views 14 years ago. Listen as staff at Black Thunder Coal Mine in the Powder River Basin talk about life at the mine - and how important...

The Black Thunder Coal Mine is a surface coal mine in the U.S. state of Wyoming, located in the Powder River Basin which contains one of the largest deposits of coal in the world. In 2022, the mine produced 62,180,000 short tons (56,410,000 t) of coal, [1] over 25% of Wyoming's total coal production.

Black Thunder Coal Mine. Click here for a virtual tour of the Powder River Basin's Black Thunder Coal Mine, produced by Arch Coal Company, the mine's owner. Visit the Coal Diver website pages on Black Thunder for the mine's production records, safety records, news of lease sales, and more.