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Patton Rolls into Illinois

By Lee Buchsbaum, Associate Editor and Photographer On August 14, Foresight Energy’s Deer Run mine, operated by Patton Mining, flipped a switch and turned the mine’s massive longwall on commencing operations. Since then it has rapidly become one of the top producing…

Clean Coal Strikes Back

By Lee Buchsbaum, Associate Editor and Photographer On November 2, Unit No. 2 of the Prairie State Energy Campus (PSEC), a 1,600-megawatt power plant located in southern Illinois, went live, producing commercial power for its nine owners and their 2.5 million customers….

Rising Phoenix

By Lee Buchsbaum, Associate Editor and Photographer The Bowie No. 2 longwall mine, owned by Bowie Resources, is located at the west end of the North Fork of the Gunnison Valley in western Colorado. It was constructed to service a TVA contract,…

Obama’s Got to Go

This month, Lee Buchsbaum penned a report (See War on Coal, p. 30), based on two presentations at the National Coal Transportation Association’s annual meeting, which took place recently in Denver. Another article (See Utility Roundup, p. 44) defines the current situation…

The NCTA Discusses the War on Coal

By Lee Buchsbaum, Associate Editor & Photographer The dominant theme at this year’s fall meeting of the National Coal Transportation Association (NCTA) in Denver was the continuing effects of the Obama administration’s “War on Coal.” Speakers from several groups and organizations illustrated…

Coaltrans Miami Examines Exports Activity

By Lee Buchsbaum, Associate Editor and Photographer The dominant theme for the 2012 Coaltrans Conference in Miami was the continued movement of coal away from domestic markets and into the export sphere. Once again, the two big drivers for these shifts are…

An Energy Market Awash in Cheap Gas

…markets are concerned, the export market is one of the few positives the coal industry has to hang its hat on these days. Lee Buchsbaum recently visited the terminals in Vancouver and interviewed some of the executives. In his article this month…

LOCKED Out: Aging Locks and Dams Jeopardize Inland Waterways

By Lee Buchsbaum, Associate Editor and Photographer Endless foreign wars, endless Federal budget cuts and endless political debates are starting to take a collective toll on the health and viability of our nation’s crumbling infrastructure, once the envy of the world. While…

Highwall Mining in the Heart of Appalachia

By Lee Buchsbaum, Associate Editor and Photographer Driving through the red and orange autumn foliage covering the Virginia hills near Richlands, J.D. Fairchild, regional sales manager-Highwall Miners, Caterpillar (Cat), spoke about the history of the highwall mining machine, a history intertwined with…

Pennsylvania Anthracite Re-emerges on the International Coal Scene

By Lee Buchsbaum, Associate Editor & Photographer Pockmarks from century old timbers stretch out along the sloping highwall at Blaschak Coal’s Primrose anthracite mine near Mahanoy City in northeastern Pennsylvania. Classified by the state as “re-mining” jobs, virtually all of the dozens…

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