Economics
Even Biggest Mine in Cheapest U.S. Coal Region Is Suffering
- Peabody scales down staff at Power River Basin operation
- `Even the low-cost guys aren't completely unscathed' in slide
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It’s the country’s biggest coal mine, producing one of every eight tons in the U.S. last year.
The coal is dug from seams as high as six-story buildings, buried beneath the rolling Wyoming plains of yellow grass and sagebrush.