A full coal truck motors out of the pit at Black Thunder recently. Photo by Dan Cepeda, Star-Tribune
U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Chairman Dale Klein, left, and U.S. Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., stand next to a uranium well at the Smith Ranch-Highland in-situ uranium mine Wednesday afternoon. Photo by DUSTIN BLEIZEFFER, Star-Tribune.
Bundles of oil samples are organized, then processed. The Wyoming Machinery laboratory analyzes up to 500 oil samples daily. (Dustin Bleizeffer, Star-Tribune)
Members of the Newmont Twin Creek mine safety team from Nevada participate in Friday's repelling training at the Campbell County Fire Training Center in Gillette. (Laura Phagan/Star-Tribune correspondent)
J.R. Whellock welds in the shop at Belle Ayr mine. (Tim Kupsick, Star-Tribune)
President Bush speaks before signing The Miner Act, Thursday, June 15, 2006, in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building in Washington. (AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari)
Mine Emergency Response Team trucks leave the site of six trapped coal miners at the entrance to the Crandall Canyon Mine on Tuesday northwest of Huntington, Utah. AP Photo/Douglas C. Pizac.
A man observes coal being loaded into railcars at the Belle Ayr mine. This train was headed to Public Service Co. of Colorado. Belle Ayr can load six trains per day. (Tim Kupsick, Star-Tribune)
Linda Daniels and Jim Anderson observe the magnified image of an oil sample at Wyoming Machinery Co.'s laboratory in Casper. (Dustin Bleizeffer, Star-Tribune)
Carissa Mine project engineer Brenton Leavitt (right) and other state officials walk underneath the newly constructed trestle that runs to the refurbished gold mine's mill house (background) during a recent tour of the facility. Photo by JEFF GEARINO, Star-Tribune.
State parks and Abandoned Mine Lands officials stand near the massive ore crusher in the old mill house at the Carissa Mine site in South Pass City. The mill house and other structures at the historic mine are being renovated by the state. Photo by JEFF GEARINO, Star-Tribune.
Wyo coal makes inroads; Rail, mine expansions result in another record year
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