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Powder River Basin: 162B Tons of Coal
February 28, 2013 | USGS

The Powder River Basin of Wyoming and Montana contains about 162 billion short tons of recoverable coal from a total of 1.07 trillion short tons of in-place resources according to a new USGS assessment.


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