Take a Virtual Tour of Black Thunder Coal Mine

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 highly skilled employees are proud to provide 12% of America's affordable coal supply each year while also operating safely, protecting the environment and enhancing local communities.

[joanstradley]

I was doing New Miner Training at the Black Thunder Mine the day the first train load of coal left the mine. There were less than 200 people working there at the time. It is amazing to see how much it has grown and to see that the mine management's commitment to safety is still as strong as it ever was. David Stradley

[publicmushroom]

3:15 Thats not reclaimed land, notice the wood fence post in the background.

[Leatherface.]

I want to go there and see Ursa Major I hope they give tours of the machine

[michaelhusar]

My grandfather's farm in Illinois was strip mined for coal. The land today is ok for grazing cattle, but the 6feet of unbelievable top soil that produced corn or soy beans is gone. My in thousands of years it could come back. Strip mining for coal was bad idea on productive farm land that could feed people for thousands of years. The coal mined there is a long gone.

[thenekom]

If anybody knows, is any of this metallurgical coal? Any used for coking or it it all thermal coal?

[dbt]

Hell yeah making a killin not having to move a100 ft or more of rock to get to the coal like in the appalachias

[LoveNotLabels]

Are those school buses those miners are riding at the end of this video? Wonder if any of them ever slash the seats?

[krank]

this looks great but it was in general. I m interested in land reclamation.
hopefully i will find something somewhere else.

[jeh]

I really hate to tell you Mr Know-it-all, I worked there till I couldn't stand it anymore and went to work in a mine to the south.and before that I worked at Triton coal company(the company that Arch claimed the tons from) Let me guess, you operate a desk for a living and have no idea how things really work.

[stnicholas]

They'll have to increase production at the Black Thunder Mine in order to keep the batteries of all those 'electric cars' charged and on the road ! There's irony for you.

[ryanburbridge]

Love that real energy!!!! Don’t ever give in to that fake green energy BS!!!

[albertlopez]

Son importantes todavía su cierre causará problemas pero aganlo cuando quieran yo paso !!

[Jemalacane]

Why don't they use a bucketwheel excavator?

[markspencexx]

No. It's the product they turn out. Low sulfur coal.

[Chiefab]

Coal is Great !! Coal Powers Iowa were i Live!! 

[albertlopez]

D estos no comento nada pero evidente que también tienen racan racan !!
Ya se cansarán de trabajar pero da igual!!
pleguen cuando quieran (!!
Yo no aviso a todos los gremios uno por uno !!
Ya le veré cerrar de gopetazo

[illegalscamelliott]

No, State refuses to regulate air quality.