page_title: Rawhide Mine
hierarchical_section_title: Rawhide Mine
caption_attribution_description: English: Coal mines of the Powder River Basin — seen north of the city of Gillette in Campbell County, Wyoming. Strip mines visible in the image include: the Eagle Butte Mine, Dry Fork Mine, Rawhide Mine, and the Buckskin Mine (Kiewit Corporation). The Gillette-Campbell County Airport is also visible. Photo was taken at an altitude of 38,000 feet during a transcontinental commercial flight from New York City (JFK) to San Francisco (SFO), on May 7th, 2012.
context_page_description: The Rawhide Mine is a coal mine located 10 miles north of Gillette, Wyoming in the United States in the coal-rich Powder River Basin. The mine is an open pit mine that utilizes a combination of cast blast/dozer push and truck/shovel mining methods to strip an average of 165 feet of overburden off of approximately 105 feet of coal. Rawhide produces a low-sulfur, sub-bituminous coal from the Roland and Smith seams. This coal is used for domestic energy generation and shipped to customers via railroad. The mine is currently owned and operated by Peabody Energy.
  As of 2009, Rawhide had reserves of 388,000,000 tons of sub-bituminous coal and a maximum permitted production capacity of 24,000,000 tons per year. Typical annual production has been in 12–18 mm ton range for the last several years though. In 2010, the mine produced just over 11,225,000 million short tons of coal, making it the 13th-largest producer of coal in the United States.
  The average quality of the coal shipped from Rawhide is 8,300 BTU/lb, 0.37% sulfur, 5.40% ash, and 1.60% sodium.
  Train loading at the Rawhide mine is done in two passes.
context_section_description: The Rawhide Mine is a coal mine located 10 miles (16.1 km) north of Gillette, Wyoming in the United States in the coal-rich Powder River Basin. The mine is an open pit mine that utilizes a combination of cast blast/dozer push and truck/shovel mining methods to strip an average of 165 feet (50.3m) of overburden off of approximately 105 (32.0m) feet of coal. Rawhide produces a low-sulfur, sub-bituminous coal from the Roland and Smith seams. This coal is used for domestic energy generation and shipped to customers via railroad. The mine is currently owned and operated by Peabody Energy.
  As of 2009, Rawhide had reserves of 388,000,000 tons (352,000,000 tonnes)  of sub-bituminous coal and a maximum permitted production capacity of 24,000,000 tons per year. Typical annual production has been in 12–18 mm ton range for the last several years though. In 2010, the mine produced just over 11,225,000 million short tons of coal, making it the 13th-largest producer of coal in the United States.
  The average quality of the coal shipped from Rawhide is 8,300 BTU/lb, 0.37% sulfur, 5.40% ash, and 1.60% sodium (of the ash).
  Train loading at the Rawhide mine is done in two passes. The first pass flood-loads the majority of the coal into the rail car while it is under the mine's silos, while a second pass tops off the car to its final target weight ± 250 lbs. Silo capacity at the mine's rail loop, which can accommodate up to three unit trains, is 78,000 tons. The mine also has an intermediate coal silo that has an 18,000-ton capacity for 10"- run of mine coal.
caption: Coal mines north and east of Gillette–Campbell County Airport, including the Rawhide Mine
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