The Castle Gate mine disaster occurred on March 8, 1924, in a coal mine near the town of Castle Gate, Utah (now dismantled), located approximately 90 miles (140 km) southeast of Salt Lake City.
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The shrinking in size of two national monuments in Utah by President Trump through executive order was a long overdue rebuke to federal land grabs that have enabled federal control of vast swaths of American land, particularly in the West. As the New York Times noted in 2016: The United States ...
Coal Mine Canyon is a remote ravine near Tuba City at the edge of the Painted Desert in the Navajo Indian Reservation of north Arizona, featuring colorful, eroded hoodoos and other unusual rock formations
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Information about Phosphate rock mining in Utah. This page was last updated on December 16, 2017. (Return to Industries Index Page)Vernal Mine. In 1915, Harry Ratliffe staked nearly 15,000 acres of low to medium grade phosphate rock along the southern flank of the Uintah Mountains.
Murray Energy Corporation is the largest coal mining company in America.
Coal Mine Safety and Health enforces the Mine Act at all coal mines in the United States. Enforcement activities include:
The human body is home to microbes from all of these categories. Microscopic plants are also considered microbes, though they don't generally live on or in the human body. Bacteria are microscopic, single-celled organisms that have no nucleus and a cell wall made of peptidoglycan. Bacteria are the ...
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Coal mining is the process of extracting coal from the ground. Coal is valued for its energy content, and, since the 1880s, has been widely used to generate electricity. Steel and cement industries use coal as a fuel for extraction of iron from iron ore and for cement production.
Calgary-based U.S. Oil Sands is working through the summer to complete a 2,000-barrel-per-day oil sands mine in eastern Utah, one of the country's first commercial operation of this kind.
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As outrageous as this deal sounds, however, it was not the Clintons' most egregious adventure in mining skulduggery. That adventure climaxed nearly twenty years ago – September 18, 1996, to be precise – when then President Bill Clinton unilaterally transformed a 1.7-million-acre slice of southern Utah into a new national monument.
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