Northwestern Colorado Mine Gets Access To More Federal Coal

STEAMBOAT SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) – The federal government has agreed to lease Peabody Energy Corp. another 340,000 tons of publicly owned coal at a northwestern Colorado mine.
The Bureau of Land Management announced the decision Wednesday. The agency says extracting the additional coal won’t result in any further surface disturbance at the underground Foidel Creek Mine, which is also known as the Twentymile Mine.
The operation is 20 miles southwest of Steamboat Springs.
The BLM says the